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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456569903321

Titolo

Law's madness [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2003

ISBN

9786612422805

0-472-02209-1

1-282-42280-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Collana

The Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought

Altri autori (Persone)

SaratAustin

DouglasLawrence

UmphreyMartha Merrill

Disciplina

340/.19

Soggetti

Law - Psychological aspects

Insanity (Law)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Madness and law : an introduction / Martha Merrill Umphrey, Austin Sarat, and Lawrence Douglas -- Policing stories / Peter Brooks -- Narrating nymphomania between psychiatry and the law / Elizabeth Lunbeck -- "A situation so unique that it will probably never repeat itself" : madness, youth, and homicide in twentieth-century criminal jurisprudence / Jonathan Simon -- The claims of the dead : history, haunted property, and the law / Cathy Caruth -- Rethinking legal ideals after deconstruction / Drucilla Cornell.