Shall we hang the insane who commit homicides?

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Clark, 1832-1918, author.

Series:

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century.

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beach, L. U., 1840-1885--Trials, litigation, etc.

Beach, L. U.

Insanity (Law)--Pennsylvania.

Insanity (Law).

Trials (Murder)--Pennsylvania.

Trials (Murder).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (32 pages) : illustration.

Place of Publication:

1885

Summary:

The History of Disabilities program provides access to primary sources written using terminology that was in common use by the medical establishment and general society at the time, and describes diagnoses, methodologies, procedures, and treatments that may no longer be used or were debunked by later research. Users may come across words and expressions describing individuals and groups that they find condescending, upsetting, disconcerting, offensive, and not acceptable today. MiFhGG

Notes:

Caption title.

"Read before the Medical Jurisprudence Society of Philadelphia, April 14th, 1885."

Includes a discussion of the case of Dr. L.U. Beach, indicted in Blair County, Pa., for the murder of his wife on April 7, 1884.

Reproduction of the original from the New York Academy of Medicine.

OCLC:

1477836515