Mad-Doctors in the Dock - Defending the Diagnosis, 17601913

Informationen zum 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Joel Peter Eigen, Joel Peter (Professor Eigen
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.12.2016
• EAN: 9781421420486
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-2048-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Europe, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, MEDICAL / History, LAW / Courts, History of Medicine, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Jurisprudence & general issues, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Jurisprudence and general issues