The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and the Law in the Gilded Age (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith) - Softcover

Rosenberg, Charles E. E.

 
9780226727172: The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and the Law in the Gilded Age (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226727173 ISBN 13: 9780226727172
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1995

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In this brilliant study, Charles Rosenberg uses the celebrated trial of Charles Guiteau, who assassinated President Garfield in 1881, to explore insanity and criminal responsibility in the Gilded Age. Rosenberg masterfully reconstructs the courtroom battle waged by twenty-four expert witnesses who represented the two major schools of psychiatric thought of the generation immediately preceding Freud.

Although the role of genetics in behavior was widely accepted, these psychiatrists fiercely debated whether heredity had predisposed Guiteau to assassinate Garfield. Rosenberg's account allows us to consider one of the opening rounds in the controversy over the criminal responsibility of the insane, a debate that still rages today.

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Charles E. Rosenberg is professor of history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania.

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In this brilliant study, Charles Rosenberg uses the celebrated trial of Charles Guiteau, who assassinated President Garfield in 1881, to explore insanity and criminal responsibility in the Gilded Age. Rosenberg masterfully reconstructs the courtroom battle waged by twenty-four expert witnesses who represented the two major schools of psychiatric thought of the generation immediately preceding Freud. Although the idea that genetics could play a role in behavior was just beginning to take hold in their day, these psychiatrists fiercely debated whether heredity had predisposed Guiteau to assassinate Garfield. Rosenberg's account allows us to consider one of the classic moments in the controversy over the criminal responsibility of the insane, a debate that still rages today.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226727173
ISBN 13 
9780226727172
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Anzahl der Seiten
319
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