Dr. James Moran delivers the inaugural 2016 Shannon Lecture
秀色短视频鈥檚 Dr. James Moran delivered the first of the 2016 Shannon Lectures at Carleton University. This year, the Shannon Lectures examine the social, intellectual and cultural history of health, sickness, disease and medicine. Dr. Moran鈥檚 lecture was entitled 鈥淭rials of Madness: Civil Law and Lunacy in a Trans-Atlantic World During the 18th and 19th Centuries.鈥�
Dr. Moran is an associate professor in the history department at the 秀色短视频. He researches and writes about the history of disease, medicine, and mental health. Recent publications include, 鈥楾ravails of Madness: New Jersey, 1800-1870鈥�, in Waltraud Ernst, ed., Work Therapy, Psychiatry and Society, c. 1750 鈥� 2010 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016) and, with Dr. Lisa Chilton, 鈥楳ad Migrants and the Reach of English Civil Law,鈥� in Marjory Harper ed., The Past and Present of Migration and Mental Health (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). He is in the completion stages of a book entitled, Madness on Trial: English Civil Law and Lunacy in trans-Atlantic Context.
