Manual of lunacy : a handbook relating to the legal care and treatment of the insane in the public and private asylums of Great Britain, Ireland, United States of America, and the Continent / Lyttleton Stewart Forbes Winslow.

A controversial psychiatrist, Lyttleton Stewart Forbes Winslow (1844-1913) grew up around the lunatic asylums run by his father, Forbes B. Winslow, who was a specialist in the treatment of mental illness, establishing also medical grounds for the plea of insanity in criminal defence. Lyttleton spent...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author:	Winslow, Lyttleton Forbes, 1844-1913 (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Series:	Cambridge library collection. History of medicine.
Subjects:	Psychiatric hospitals. Mentally ill > Care. Mentally ill > Law and legislation.