Author: Peter Fenwick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 91

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Author: John Rumbold
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351787829
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Automatism is a notoriously difficult subject for law students, lawyers and judges. This book explores the science and medicine of sleep disorders and examines how the criminal process deals with such disorders when presented as a defence. It systematically examines the legal doctrines involved, and their implications for the use of the evidence key to establishing automatism, while also exploring the medical conditions that can cause automatism (particularly epilepsy, sleepwalking and diabetes). This book is a valuable resource for law students, lawyers, judges and expert witnesses.

Author: Peter Fenwick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 27

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Author: John Rumbold
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781138701632
Category : Automatism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book explores the science and medicine of sleep disorders and examines how the criminal process deals with such disorders when presented as a defence. It examines the legal doctrines involved and their implications for the use of the evidence key to establishing automatism, while also exploring the medical conditions that can cause automatism.

Author: Alan Reed
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443875694
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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Criminal law has struggled to keep pace with developments in psychiatry, both in substantive and procedural terms, and it is widely recognised that increased inter-disciplinary discussion of mental condition defences is required in order to address this gap between the law and psychiatry. This edited collection comes at a time of review of this sensitive area of criminal law. The Law Commission for England and Wales recently placed its evaluation of insanity, automatism and intoxication on hold, while it considers the law on unfitness to plead. These reviews are set against the backdrop of earlier Law Commission reports on partial defences to murder which informed significant changes that were made to the law in this area under sections 52–56 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009. Recent developments in case law in this substantive area illustrate not only the importance of the role of the medical expert, but also that reform in this area is informed by ongoing inter-disciplinary research. This collection brings together medical and legal conceptions of mental disorder in order to appraise the operation of mental condition defences. In this respect, it provides invaluable and original insights into mental condition defences and criminal law.

Author: P. B. C. Fenwick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Author: Mariana Valverde
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521644693
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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While associated with comfort and pleasure, alcohol has been and is a 'problem' substance, both for medical and political authorities and for many drinkers. In this broad-ranging and innovative historical-sociological investigation, Valverde explores the ways in which both authorities and individual consumers have defined and managed the pleasures and dangers of alcoholic beverages. The author explores the question of free will versus determinism and how it has been challenged by ideas about addiction, morality and psychology during the last 150 years. The book draws on sources from the US, UK, Canada and elsewhere, and covers topics including nineteenth century 'dipsomania', the history of inebriate homes, Alcoholics Anonymous, fetal alcohol education and liquor control. It will appeal to readers in legal studies, criminology, sociology, psychology, social theory and the history of medicine.

Author: Kenneth J. Weiss
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199346593
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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This is a resource for practitioners intending to introduce cutting-edge science into analyses of mental state, in criminal and civil proceedings. It provides a practical treatment of the science behind human development and the uses of technology as they enter the courtroom.

Author: Karl E. Misulis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199985901
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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This resource is an illustrated guide to the performance and interpretation of EEG and management of epilepsy. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, and features hundreds of detailed EEGs covering the science in extensive scope and detail, beginning with basic electronics and physiology, followed by EEG interpretation, epilepsy diagnosis, and ultimately epilepsy management. It also includes all basic classifications and definitions of seizures and epilepsy.

Author: Samden Lhatoo
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199659044
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 395

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Part of the Oxford Textbooks in Clinical Neurology (OTCN) series, this volume covers the scientific basis, clinical diagnosis, and treatment of epilepsy and epileptic seizures, and is complemented by an online edition.