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

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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.

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