Mad-doctors in the dock : defending the diagnosis, 1760-1913 / Joel Peter Eigen.
Mad-doctors in the dock : defending the diagnosis, 1760-1913 / Joel Peter Eigen.
Mad-doctors in the dock : defending the diagnosis, 1760-1913 / Joel Peter Eigen.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2016]
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G 2017/6427
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English
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Physical content
xiii, 206 pages ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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 fr...
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Publisher
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2016]
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Maryland
Date Published
[2016]
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Summary
Shortly before she pushed her infant daughter headfirst into a bucket of water and fastened the lid, Annie Cherry warmed the pail because, as she later explained to a police officer, "It would have been cruel to put her in cold water." Afterwards, this mother sat down and poured herself a cup of tea. At Cherry's trial at the Old Bailey in 1877, Hen...
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Mad-doctors in the dock : defending the diagnosis, 1760-1913 / Joel Peter Eigen.
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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.
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G 2017/6427
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74VKVGK0NEbl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVGK0NEbl
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ISBN
1421420481 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781421420486 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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616.8900922421
MMS ID
991024151736202626
