Murders and Madness: Medicine, Law, and Society in the Fin de Siècle by Ruth Harris

Murders and Madness: Medicine, Law, and Society in the Fin de Siècle

Ruth Harris

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This is an interdisciplinary study of the debate on crime and madness in France between 1880 and 1914. Harris argues that the traditional bases of the French penal system were undermined at the time by psychiatric theories of human behavior and ne...

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