Article ID: CBB713442536

A ‘Scottish Poor Law of Lunacy’? Poor Law, Lunacy Law and Scotland’s parochial asylums (2017)

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Scotland’s parochial asylums are unfamiliar institutional spaces. Representing the concrete manifestation of the collision between two spheres of legislation, the Poor Law and the Lunacy Law, six such asylums were constructed in the latter half of the nineteenth century. These sites expressed the enduring mandate of the Scottish Poor Law 1845 over the domain of ‘madness’. They were institutions whose very existence was fashioned at the directive of the local arm of the Poor Law, the parochial board, and they constituted a continuing ‘Scottish Poor Law of Lunacy’. Their origins and operation significantly subverted the intentions and objectives of the Lunacy Act 1857, the aim of which had been to institute a public district asylum network with nationwide coverage.

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Authors & Contributors
Pinto, Sarah Ann
Allmond, Gillian
Farquharson, Jennifer
Weston, Kathryn M.
Robson, Charmaine
Draper, Brian
Concepts
Psychiatric hospitals
Institutionalization
Mental disorders and diseases
Medicine and law
Health care
Medicine and politics
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century, late
Enlightenment
21st century
Places
Scotland
New South Wales (Australia)
Australia
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Bombay (India)
Institutions
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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