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

by Ruth Harris

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Harris, Ruth. Murders and Madness: Medicine, Law, and Society in the Fin de Siecle. Oxford, UK : Clarendon Press, 1991 . viii, 366 pp. Softcover. Light shelfwear. Internally clean. A very good copy. 35. * 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 new sociological

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