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Law and the Modern Mind : Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture / Susanna L. Blumenthal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blumenthal, Susanna L., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Common law--United States.
- Common law.
- Common sense.
- Insanity (Law)--United States.
- Insanity (Law).
- Liability (Law)--United States.
- Liability (Law).
- Mental health laws--United States.
- Mental health laws.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Headline-grabbing murders are not the only cases in which sanity has been disputed in the American courtroom. Susanna Blumenthal traces this litigation, revealing how ideas of human consciousness, agency, and responsibility have shaped American jurisprudence as judges struggled to reconcile Enlightenment rationality with new sciences of the mind.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Common Sense and Common Law
- Chapter 2. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity
- Chapter 3. Unnatural Dispositions
- Chapter 4. The Eccentricity of the Will
- Chapter 5. Speculative Mania in the Age of Contract
- Chapter 6. The Consideration of Love
- Chapter 7. The Responsible Originator
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-49551-9
- OCLC:
- 984688449
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