Author: Raymond SaleillesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Individualization of Punishment
Author: Raymond SaleillesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
The American Journal of Insanity
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Includes section "Book reviews".
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
Medical Muses
Author: Asti HustvedtPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408822350
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
In 1862 the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris became the epicenter of the study of hysteria, the mysterious illness then thought to affect half of all women. There, prominent neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot's contentious methods caused furore within the church and divided the medical community. Treatments included hypnosis, piercing and the evocation of demons and, despite the controversy they caused, the experiments became a fascinating and fashionable public spectacle. Medical Muses tells the stories of the women institutionalised in the Salpêtrière. Theirs is a tale of science and ideology, medicine and the occult, of hypnotism, sadism, love and theatre. Combining hospital records, municipal archives, memoirs and letters, Medical Muses sheds new light on a crucial moment in psychiatric history.
The Psychological Index
Author: Pamphlets on Biology
Author: Localizing the Moral Sense
Author: Jan VerplaetsePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402063229
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Due to the current revolution in brain research the search for the “moral brain” became a serious endeavour. Nowadays, neural circuits that are indispensable for moral and social behaviour are discovered and the brains of psychopaths and criminals - the classical anti-heroes of morality - are scanned with curiosity, even enthusiasm. How revolutionary this current research might be, the quest for a localisable ethical centre or moral organ is far from new. The moral brain was a recurrent theme in the works of neuroscientists during the 19th and 20th century. From the phrenology era to the encephalitis pandemic in the 1920s a wide range of European and American scientists (neurologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists and criminologists) speculated about and discussed the location of a moral sense in the human cortex. Encouraged by medical discoveries and concerned by terrifying phenomena like crime or “moral insanity” (psychopathy) even renowned and outstanding neurologists, including Moritz Benedikt, Paul Flechsig, Arthur Van Gehuchten, Oskar Vogt or Constantin von Monakow, had the nerve to make their speculations public. This book presents the first overview of believers and disbelievers in a cerebral seat of human morality, their positions and arguments and offers an explanation for these historical attempts to localise our moral sense, in spite of the massive disapproving commentary launched by colleagues.
Review of Neurology and Psychiatry
Author: Review of Neurology and Psychiatry
Author: Alexander BrucePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nervous system
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description