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Looking After Miss Alexander

- Care, Mental Capacity, and the Court of Protection in Mid-Twentieth-Century England
Af: Janet Weston Engelsk Paperback

Looking After Miss Alexander

- Care, Mental Capacity, and the Court of Protection in Mid-Twentieth-Century England
Af: Janet Weston Engelsk Paperback
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In July 1939, at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, fifty-nine-year-old Beatrice Alexander was found incapable of managing her own property and affairs. Although Alexander and those living with her insisted that she was perfectly well, the official solicitor took control of her home and money, evicted her “friends,” and hired a live-in companion to watch over her. Alexander remained legally incapable for the next thirty years.
In the mid-twentieth century, Alexander was one of about thirty thousand people in England and Wales who were, at any time, legally “incapable” and under the auspices of what is now the Court of Protection. Focusing on the period between the 1920s and the 1960s, Looking After Miss Alexander explains the workings of the court, using Alexander’s unusual case to consider the complexities of this aspect of mental health law. Drawing on Court of Protection archives – some of which were made publicly available for the first time in 2019 – and micro-historical methods, Janet Weston also highlights the role of chance, subjectivity, and uncertainty in shaping how events unfolded then, and the stories we tell about those events today.
An engaging and accessible history of mental capacity law, Looking After Miss Alexander examines ideas of citizenship and welfare, gender and vulnerability, care and control, and the role of the state. It also offers reflections on historical research and writing itself.

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In July 1939, at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, fifty-nine-year-old Beatrice Alexander was found incapable of managing her own property and affairs. Although Alexander and those living with her insisted that she was perfectly well, the official solicitor took control of her home and money, evicted her “friends,” and hired a live-in companion to watch over her. Alexander remained legally incapable for the next thirty years.
In the mid-twentieth century, Alexander was one of about thirty thousand people in England and Wales who were, at any time, legally “incapable” and under the auspices of what is now the Court of Protection. Focusing on the period between the 1920s and the 1960s, Looking After Miss Alexander explains the workings of the court, using Alexander’s unusual case to consider the complexities of this aspect of mental health law. Drawing on Court of Protection archives – some of which were made publicly available for the first time in 2019 – and micro-historical methods, Janet Weston also highlights the role of chance, subjectivity, and uncertainty in shaping how events unfolded then, and the stories we tell about those events today.
An engaging and accessible history of mental capacity law, Looking After Miss Alexander examines ideas of citizenship and welfare, gender and vulnerability, care and control, and the role of the state. It also offers reflections on historical research and writing itself.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 192
ISBN-13: 9780228014683
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0228014689
Kategori: Handicaplovgivning
Udg. Dato: 15 jan 2023
Længde: 14mm
Bredde: 229mm
Højde: 152mm
Forlag: McGill-Queen's University Press
Oplagsdato: 15 jan 2023
Forfatter(e): Janet Weston
Forfatter(e) Janet Weston

Kategori Handicaplovgivning

ISBN-13 9780228014683

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 192

Udgave

Længde 14mm

Bredde 229mm

Højde 152mm

Udg. Dato 15 jan 2023

Oplagsdato 15 jan 2023

Forlag McGill-Queen's University Press

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