The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and the Law in the Gilded Age
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226727173
ISBN13:9780226727172
Release Date:October 1995
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:308 Pages
Weight:0.88 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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