What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

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Inconvenient People
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SOLVED. Nonfiction book on Victorian Asylums [s]
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It was in the sidebar in the corner when I went to that page. It's Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England.
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Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England (other topics)10 Days in a Madhouse (other topics)
It focused on how declaring someone insane/committing them could be used as a way to force issues of property/gain control over funds. It possibly opened with a case about a mother trying to have her son committed to gain access to his money. (I can't remember if he wasn't giving it to her, or if she just disapproved, but I think he was generally a cranky/slightly odd person, and a business man. This was very early in the book, at least)
A lot of it focused on men, though some discussion was on women. (For some reason, I thought Caroline Norton was brought up, but I think it was another estranged-from-her-awful-husband woman novelist, one who wrote in response to said awful marriage. Charles Dickens was involved somehow, and I really want to remember the details!)