Mad-Doctors in the Dock
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Mad-Doctors in the Dock: Defending the Diagnosis, 1760–1913

Mad-Doctors in the Dock: Defending the Diagnosis, 1760–1913


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Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Criminal Trials before the Lawyer Chapter 2. Delusion and Its Discontents Chapter 3.When Practitioners Become Professionals: The Alienists’ Claim to Knowledge Chapter 4. The Diagnosis in the Dock Chapter 5. The Witness Takes the Stand Chapter 6. Homicidal Mania: Provenance and Cultural Context Chapter 7. The View from the Bench: Judicial Discretion and Forensic-Psychiatric Evidence Conclusion. On the Origins of Diagnosis Notes Index

About the Author :
Joel Peter Eigen (LANCASTER, PA) is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Franklin and Marshall College and Principal Fellow (Honorary) at the University of Melbourne. Mad-Doctors in the Dock is the final volume in his trilogy examining the insanity defense in the British courtroom. The first two volumes are Witnessing Insanity: Madness and Mad-Doctors in the English Court and Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London.

Review :
Eigen has gone deeper than anyone to date in analysing the course of the insanity defence in English law. His trilogy is the go-to source for this fascinating and distressing topic. —Times Higher Education An unlikely subject for vacation or bedtime reading? On the contrary, the ‘mad-doctors’’ task is unequivocally compelling. Eigen translates his extensive research clearly as a scientific rather than sensational exposition. Readers interested in criminal jurisprudence, the complexities of temporary insanity, and contemporary criminal procedure in light of the historical background will be fascinated. —Seattle Book Review From a historical perspective, the narrative is very interesting and easily flows. The work is highly recommended for undergraduates, graduate students in psychiatry and forensic medicine, and researchers in jurisprudence. —Choice An excellent piece of historical scholarship: intrinsically interesting in subject matter, fully alive to the creative and analytical potential in attending to historical particularity, mindful of the lives that populate the often-tragic cases examined, and resolutely opposed to simplistic readings, Mad-Doctors in the Dock is a fitting conclusion to Eigen's assiduous search for the right question. —Metascience Eigen covers his territory in an informed, assured fashion. —Irish Jurist Vital for understanding the development of the English trial... This book and the trilogy of which it is a part provide a major chapter in the history of the public sphere. Historians of law, medicine, and psychiatry will seek out Eigen's work, but the trilogy has much to offer scholars in Victorian studies more generally. —Victorian Studies By bringing together legal and medical history, the book makes an important methodological contribution to historiographies that do not always engage each other directly. The analysis of interlocking medical and legal discourses and of the effects that they had on each other reveals that neither is an isolated system of thought. The book will be a valuable resource for scholars interested in the history of legal insanity as well as for those interested in broader questions related to responsibility. —American Historical Review


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781421420493
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Sub Title: Defending the Diagnosis, 1760–1913
  • ISBN-10: 142142049X
  • Publisher Date: 22 Dec 2016
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Returnable: 01


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