Harris Ruth:
Murders And Madness
Medicine, Law And Society In The Fin-De-Siecle
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom), 1989
Hardback, 376 pages
Size: 21x14 mm
ISBN: 9780198229919
ISBN-10: 0198229917
Murders And Madness
A study of the debate surrounding crime and madness in France from 1840-1914, which argues that the French penal system was undermined by psychiatric theories of human behaviour and sociological interpretations of crime. Case studies are featured on which this discussion was based.

