TY  - GEN
T1  - Looking after Miss Alexander : care, mental capacity, and the Court of Protection in mid-twentieth-century England
T2  - States, people, and the history of social change ;
A1  - Weston, Janet
LA  - English
PP  - Montreal ; Chicago
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1336054089
AB  - "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."--
OP  - 172
CN  - KD3412 .W47 2023
SN  - 9780228015840
SN  - 0228015847
SN  - 9780228016090
SN  - 0228016096
SN  - 9780228015833
SN  - 0228015839
SN  - 9780228014676
SN  - 9780228014683
SN  - 0228014670
KW  - Alexander, Beatrice : (Beatrice Ruth) : Mental health.
KW  - Great Britain. : Court of Protection.
KW  - Alexander, Beatrice : (Beatrice Ruth)
KW  - Great Britain. : Court of Protection
KW  - Mental health laws : Great Britain : History : 20th century.
KW  - Mental Health : legislation & jurisprudence
KW  - Mental Health : history
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - England
KW  - Médecine : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century.
KW  - Mental health
KW  - Mental health laws
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - British Union of Fascists.
KW  - Dorset.
KW  - Lunacy Office.
KW  - Official Solicitor.
KW  - autonomy.
KW  - capacity.
KW  - care.
KW  - carers.
KW  - chance.
KW  - citizenship.
KW  - common law.
KW  - competence.
KW  - control.
KW  - dementia.
KW  - disability.
KW  - elder abuse.
KW  - exploitation.
KW  - financial abuse.
KW  - friendship.
KW  - gender.
KW  - guardianship.
KW  - homecare.
KW  - imagination.
KW  - incapacity.
KW  - indeterminacy.
KW  - informal care.
KW  - interwar.
KW  - legal history.
KW  - lunacy law.
KW  - mental defect.
KW  - mental health law.
KW  - mental illness.
KW  - microhistory.
KW  - nursing.
KW  - respectability.
KW  - retirement.
KW  - small history.
KW  - social policy.
KW  - socio-legal history.
KW  - subjectivity.
KW  - vulnerability.
KW  - welfare state.
KW  - welfare.
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
ER  -