SOCIOL 2C06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Non Compos Mentis, List Of Latin Legal Terms, Demonic Possession
10 Apr 2016
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Mental illness & deviance: mental illness (mi) Is widespread yet treated as staisically unusual. Popularly & medically regarded as organic disorder. This disputed among ani-psychiatry perspecive: argue problems of daily living ^ medicalized, w/in sociology focus is on: How societal assumpions, beliefs informs & shapes defs of mi. Social forces, pracices & rels that create mi. Recognizes universal def of normal" mental funcioning impossible. Early conceptualisaions of mi: medieval & colonial. Mi as myth - criique by anipsychiatry scholars. 13thc right & duty of king to protect mi. Authority, privilege, immunity that belongs to sovereign alone. Included king"s authority over mi acted as guardian. 2 categories of mi at this ime. Determinaion of based on commonsense abiliies of ind. (ii) persons non compos menis (not of sound mind: natural fool. Inds who were mentally delayed since birth. Condiion was congenital, permanent born that way . 15thc legal changes regarding king"s rights & duies. Classiicaion of lunaic replaced non compos menis.
