Mad-doctors in the dock : defending the diagnosis, 1760-1913

Mad-doctors in the dock : defending the diagnosis, 1760-1913 /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eigen, Joel Peter, 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Insanity (Law) > Great Britain > History.
Forensic psychiatry > Great Britain > History.
Medicine > History > 18th century.
Insanity Defense > history
Mental Disorders > diagnosis
History, 19th Century
History, 18th Century
Expert Testimony > legislation & jurisprudence
Criminal Law > legislation & jurisprudence
London
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of 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 from the bench : judicial discretion and forensic-psychiatric evidence
  • Conclusion : on the origins of diagnosis.

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