LEADER 03902oam 22005654a 450 001 9910524687303321 005 20230621135859.0 010 $a0-8018-0203-2 010 $a1-4214-3043-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000010460782 035 $a(OCoLC)1117489225 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse77208 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88824 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29139129 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL29139129 035 $a(OCoLC)1526863644 035 $a(oapen)doab88824 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010460782 100 $a20700928d1968 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aScience and Justice$eThe Massachusetts Witchcraft Trials /$f[by] Sanford J. Fox 205 $a1st ed. 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2019 210 1$aBaltimore,$cJohns Hopkins Press$d[1968] 210 4$dİ[1968] 215 $a1 online resource (xix, 121 p.)$cillus 311 08$a1-4214-3085-1 311 08$a1-4214-3003-7 320 $aBibliographical footnotes. 327 $aCover -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter I. A Case Study in Law and Science -- Chapter II. The Roots of Massachusetts Witchcraft -- Chapter III. The Views of Scientists -- Chapter IV. The Law and Nature of Massachusetts Witchcraft -- Chapter V. Maleficium and Cause of Death -- Chapter VI. Witchcraft and Disease -- Chapter VII. Science and the Identification of Witches: Female Experts -- Chapter VIII. The Defense of Insanity -- Chapter IX. The Law-Science Relationship Then and Now -- Index. 330 $aOriginally published in 1968. Far from being an isolated outburst of community insanity or hysteria, the Massachusetts witchcraft trials were an accurate reflection of the scientific ethos of the seventeenth century. Witches were seldom hanged without supporting medical evidence. Professor Fox clarifies this use of scientific knowledge by examining the Scientific Revolution's impact on the witchcraft trials. He suggests that much of the scientific ineptitude and lack of sophistication that characterized the witchcraft cases is still present in our modern system of justice. In the historical context of seventeenth-century witch hunts and in an effort to stimulate those who must design and operate a just jurisprudence today, Fox asks what the proper legal role of medical science?especially psychiatry?should be in any society. The legal system of seventeenth-century Massachusetts was weakened by an uncritical reliance on scientific judgments, and the scientific assumptions upon which the colonial conception of witchcraft was based reinforced these doubtful judgments. Fox explores these assumptions, discusses the actual participation of scientists in the investigations, and indicates the importance of scientific attitudes in the trials. Disease theory, psychopathology, and autopsy procedures, he finds, all had their place in the identification of witches. The book presents a unique multidisciplinary investigation into the place of science in the life of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the seventeenth century. There, as in twentieth-century America, citizens were confronted with the necessity of accommodating both the rules of law and the facts of science to their system of justice. 606 $aMedical jurisprudence$zMassachusetts 606 $aWitchcraft$zMassachusetts 606 $aTrials (Witchcraft)$zMassachusetts 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMedical jurisprudence 615 0$aWitchcraft 615 0$aTrials (Witchcraft) 676 $a340/.6/09744 700 $aFox$b Sanford J$01200149 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524687303321 996 $aScience and Justice$92772209 997 $aUNINA