Article ID: CBB000931183

The 1815 Act to Regulate Madhouses in Scotland: A Reinterpretation (2009)

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This paper argues that competition between the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons there for control of medical practice locally offers a more convincing explanation of the Act to Regulate Madhouses in Scotland than viewing it as an expression of early nineteenth-century Scottish lunacy reform. Events leading to the Act becoming law are described and analysed in detail against the backdrop of the Edinburgh medical community. The attitudes of College Presidents to provisions in the Act about the health and medical inspection of confined lunatics are seen as representative of wider attitudes advanced by their respective medical corporations.

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Authors & Contributors
Monika Ankele
Campbell, Morag Allan
Dahl, Hilde
Walbaum, Sharlene D.
Farquharson, Lauren
Swartz, Sally
Concepts
Psychiatric hospitals
Mental disorders and diseases
Medicine and law
Public health
Psychiatry
Medicine and society
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Places
Scotland
England
Great Britain
Connecticut (U.S.)
London (England)
Americas
Institutions
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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