Trial by medicine insanity and responsibility in Victorian trials.

Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 1981.

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Criminal responsibility -- History.

Insanity (Law) -- History.

One Introduction

Two Medical criticism and penal practice

1. Alienists and criminal responsibility

2. Criminal lunatics

Three The medical viewpoint

1. Description of lunacy

2. Insanity as physical disease

3. Diagnosis in theory and practice

Four Law and Responsibility

1. Raving lunatics and delusion

2. Impulsive insanity

Five Medical insanity and the insanity plea

1. Raving lunatics and delusion

2. Impulsive insanity

3. Moral insanity

Six Depravity and Madness in controversial trials

Seven Medico-legal views of women

1. Femaleness and infanticide

2. Mad women

Eight Knowledge and responsibility

1. The language of mind and body

2. The content of controversy.

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