Mad-doctors in the dock [electronic resource] :defending the diagnosis, 1760-1913 / Joel Peter Eigen.
By: Eigen, Joel Peter [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
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BookPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2016] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (p. ).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781421420493; 142142049X.Subject(s): Mental Disorders -- diagnosis -- London | History, 19th Century -- London | History, 18th Century -- London | Expert Testimony -- legislation & jurisprudence -- London | Criminal Law -- legislation & jurisprudence -- London | Insanity Defense -- history -- LondonGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 616.890092/2421 Online resources: Full text available: This is the third of three volumes surveying a century and a half of insanity trials between 1760 and 1913; it follows Witnessing insanity and Unconscious crime.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nasty, brutish, and short : criminal trials before the lawyer -- Delusion and its discontents -- When practitioners become professionals : the alienists' claim to knowledge -- The diagnosis in the dock -- The witness takes the stand -- Homicidal mania : provenance and cultural context -- The view from the bench : judicial discretion and forensic-psychiatric evidence -- Conclusion : on the origins of diagnosis.
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