The medical jurisprudence of insanity /

The medical jurisprudence of insanity /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Browne, J. H. Balfour (John Hutton Balfour), 1845-1921, author.
Imprint:	London : J. & A. Churchill ; San Francisco : S. Whitney & Co., 1871. [London, England] : Printed by J.E. Adlard,
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 341 pages).
Language:	English
Subject:	Insanity (Law) -- Great Britain. Insanity (Law) -- United States. Forensic Psychiatry. Insanity (Law) Great Britain. United States.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11035484

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Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record; online resource viewed May 8, 2017.
Other form:	Print version: Browne, J. H. Balfour (John Hutton Balfour), 1845-1921. Medical jurisprudence of insanity. London, J. & A. Churchill, 1871 Microform version: Browne, J. H. Balfour (John Hutton Balfour), 1845-1921. Medical jurisprudence of insanity. London : J. & A. Churchill ; San Francisco : S. Whitney, 1871

Table of Contents:

Lunacy and limited responsibility
On the causes of insanity
Of unsoundness of mind
Amentia and its legal relations
On the pathology and symptoms of mania
On intellectual mania
On moral mania
On partial moral mania
The legal relations of mania
On the legal relations of moral mania
Dementia and its legal relations
Epilepsy and its legal relations
Somnambulism and its legal relations
Drunkenness and its legal relations
On aphasia and its legal relations
On acute delirious mania
On the legal relations of maniacal delirium
Feigned insanity
On concealed insanity
On lucid intervals
The admissibility of the evidence of the insane
On the prognosis of insanity
On the examination of persons supposed to be of unsound mind.