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Law's madness / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought.
- The Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Psychological aspects.
- Law.
- Insanity (Law).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (185 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A provocative collection of essays that reveals how the law takes its definition from what it excludes.
- Contents:
- Madness and law : an introduction / Martha Merrill Umphrey, Austin Sarat, and Lawrence Douglas
- Policing stories / Peter Brooks
- Narrating nymphomania between psychiatry and the law / Elizabeth Lunbeck
- "A situation so unique that it will probably never repeat itself" : madness, youth, and homicide in twentieth-century criminal jurisprudence / Jonathan Simon
- The claims of the dead : history, haunted property, and the law / Cathy Caruth
- Rethinking legal ideals after deconstruction / Drucilla Cornell.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612422805
- 0-472-02209-1
- 1-282-42280-4
- OCLC:
- 427511071
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