A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity

A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity
By Isaac Ray

2000/03 - Beard Books - Medical Classic
1893122727 - Paperback - Reprint - 490 pp.
US$34.95

A fascinating look at early legal principles that were based on misconceptions of insanity, and sets forth a systematic classification of the malady.

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Category: Law

This title is part of the Treatises list.

Of Interest:

Medical Jurisprudence, Insanity, and Toxicology

This book is a fascinating look at the early development of the principles that have regulated the civil and criminal responsibilities of the insane. Interestingly, principles of law were laid down long before physicians had any solid understanding of the malady. Legislators and jurists had done little more than indicate some of the obvious divisions of insanity. This book addresses some of the popular misconceptions of mental derangement and sets forth a systematic classification of the various forms of insanity.

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Issac Ray, (1807-1881). In 1838, he published "A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity". That book, and Ray's subsequent efforts established forensic psychiatry in the United States as a discipline with its own body of knowledge, skills, and professional goals. In 1896 Ray published a paper "Confinement of the Insane", in which he presented the three elements vital for any law regarding the involuntary hospitalization of the insane.

	Preliminary Views	1
Chapter I.	Mental Disease in General	68
Chapter II.	Idiocy	72
Chapter III.	Imbecility	77
Chapter IV.	Legal consequences of Mental Deficiency	96
Chapter V.	Pathology and symptoms of Mania	134
Chapter VI.	Intellectual Mania	152
Sec. I.	General Intellectual Mania	152
Sec. II.	Partial Intellectual Mania	161
Chapter VII.	Moral Mania	168
Sec. I.	General Moral Mania	170
Sec. II.	Partial Moral Mania	186
Chapter VIII.	Legal consequences of Mania	235
Sec. I.	Legal consequences of Intellectual Mania	236
Sec. II.	Legal consequences of Moral Mania	258
Chapter IX.	Dementia	279
Chapter X.	Legal consequences of Dementia	289
Chapter XI.	Febrile Delirium	297
Chapter XII.	Legal consequences of Delirium	303
Chapter XIII.	Duration and curability of Madness	310
Chapter XIV.	Lucid Intervals	319
Chapter XV.	Simulated Insanity	338
Chapter XVI.	Concealed Insanity	363
Chapter XVII.	Suicide	372
Chapter XVIII.	Legal consequences of Suicide	383
Chapter XIX.	Somnambulism	386
Chapter XX.	Legal consequences of Somnambulism	394
Chapter XXI.	Simulated Somnambulism	398
Chapter XXII.	Effect of insanity on Evidence	401
Chapter XXIII.	Drunkenness	413
Chapter XXIV.	Legal consequences of Drunkenness	428
Chapter XXV.	Interdiction	452

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