Joel Peter Eigen

Gebundenes Buch

Mad-Doctors in the Dock

Defending the Diagnosis, 1760-1913

Beschreibung

The first comprehensive account of how medical insight and folk psychology met in the courtroom, this book makes clear the tragedy of the crimes, the spectacle of the trials, and the consequences of the diagnosis for the emerging field of forensic psychiatry.

Autor

Joel Peter Eigen (LANCASTER, PA)is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Franklin and Marshall College and Principal Fellow (Honorary) at the University of Melbourne. Mad-Doctors in the Dock is the final volume in his trilogy examining the insanity defense in the British courtroom. The first two volumes are Witnessing Insanity: Madness and Mad-Doctors in the English Court and Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 439g
• ISBN-13: 9781421420486
• ISBN-10: 1421420481
• Artikelnr.: 45173182