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Mad-Doctors in the Dock: Defending the Diagnosis, 1760-1913
Joel Peter Eigen
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Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; LAQ; LNF; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 442.
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, Henry Charlton Bastian, physician to the National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic, focused his testimony on her preternatural calm following the drowning. Like many other late Victorian medical men, Bastian believed that the mother's ... Read more
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, Henry Charlton Bastian, physician to the National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic, focused his testimony on her preternatural calm following the drowning. Like many other late Victorian medical men, Bastian believed that the mother's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421420486
SKU
V9781421420486
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About Joel Peter Eigen
Joel Peter Eigen 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Mad-Doctors in the Dock: Defending the Diagnosis, 1760-1913
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more