De lunatico inquirendo: managing family inheritance across madness in eighteenth-century London.

IF 0.3 3区 哲学 Q4 HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
History of Psychiatry Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-28 DOI:10.1177/0957154X231222528
Mark McCarthy
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An 'inquisition' (or inquiry) held before a Justice of the Peace was the primary instrument for management of lunacy in eighteenth-century England. Yet its purpose was to protect wealth rather than the individual. The 1766 case book of Dr John Monro, London's leading doctor for madness, unexpectedly records a consultation that links two siblings who both had inquisitions. Nicholas Jeffreys' only son was attested lunatic in 1744: to circumvent inheritance through primogeniture, Jeffreys directed the family wealth to his last living child. One of his three daughters married Lord Camden, a former Lord Chancellor: after her and her second sister's deaths, the last-surviving sister was also placed under inquisition in 1780, to ensure the inheritance for his own family.

De lunatico inquirendo:十八世纪伦敦跨越疯狂的家族继承管理。
在十八世纪的英格兰,太平绅士主持的 "宗教裁判所"(或调查所)是管理精神病的主要手段。然而,其目的是保护财富而非个人。1766 年,伦敦著名的精神病医生约翰-蒙罗(John Monro)医生的病例集出人意料地记录了一次会诊,会诊将两兄妹联系在一起,他们都曾接受过审问。尼古拉斯-杰弗里斯(Nicholas Jeffreys)的独子在 1744 年被证实患有精神病:为了规避长子继承权,杰弗里斯将家族财富分配给了他最后一个在世的孩子。他的三个女儿中的一个嫁给了前大法官卡姆登勋爵:在她和二姐去世后,最后一个在世的姐姐也于 1780 年接受了审问,以确保自己家族的继承权。
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期刊介绍: History of Psychiatry publishes research articles, analysis and information across the entire field of the history of mental illness and the forms of medicine, psychiatry, cultural response and social policy which have evolved to understand and treat it. It covers all periods of history up to the present day, and all nations and cultures.
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