Mad-doctors in the dock : defending the diagnosis, 1760-1913 / Joel Peter Eigen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eigen, Joel Peter, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forensic psychiatry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2016]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781421420493

142142049X

OCLC:

960048996