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Mentally ill - Commitment and detention

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Mentally ill
Mental health laws
Involuntary treatment

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Images about Mentally ill - Commitment and detention

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  • Dr. Monro (physician to Bedlam) examining the straight jacketed and dishevelled Charles James Fox; representing the fall of the Coalition. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.
  • Two men, wrongly confined by Dr George Man Burrows in his lunatic asylum in Clapham, win a legal case against him and force him to flee. Lithograph by W. Heath, 1830.
  • Dr. Monro (physician to Bedlam) examining the straight jacketed and dishevelled Charles James Fox; representing the fall of the Coalition. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.
  • Maria Cosway painting in a lunatic's cell in an asylum. Coloured etching, 1786.

Works from the collections

20 works

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    The politics of mental health legislation / Clive Unsworth.

    Unsworth, Clive. | Date: 1987
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    Cursory remarks on legislative regulation of the insane : and its probable influence on their physical and moral condition : with observations on some defects in the present system / by George Man Burrows M.D. F.L.S.

    Burrows, George Man, 1771-1846. | Date: 1819
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    Dr. Monro (physician to Bedlam) examining the straight jacketed and dishevelled Charles James Fox; representing the fall of the Coalition. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.

    Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827. | Date: 4 April 1784 | Reference: 12171i
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    Inconvenient people : lunacy, liberty and the mad-doctors in Victorian England / Sarah Wise.

    Wise, Sarah (Writer on English history) | Date: 2012
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    Remarks on the plea of insanity, and on the mangement of criminal lunatics / by William Wood.

    Wood, William, 1816-1892. | Date: 1851

Related topics

United Kingdom
Mental health laws
Mental Disorders
Mentally ill - Care
Insanity (Law)
Forensic Psychiatry

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