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Citizenship, Vulnerability and Mental Incapacity in England, 1900–1960s
2019
Medical history
Over the twentieth century, the Lunacy Office (renamed the Court of Protection in 1947) was responsible for appointing 'receivers' to manage the property of adults in England who were found incapable of managing their own affairs. Tens of thousands of people were in this position by the 1920s, and numbers continued to grow until after Second World War. This article uses the archives of the Office to examine the evolution of the concept of mental incapacity over the first half of the twentieth
doi:10.1017/mdh.2019.27
pmid:31208480
pmcid:PMC7329209
fatcat:lc2nir5pgngbdoxgrqpf4xro4a