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The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and the Law in the Gilded Age Paperback - 1995
by Rosenberg, Charles E. E
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- Title The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and the Law in the Gilded Age
- Author Rosenberg, Charles E. E
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 308
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date 1995-10-15
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 53HZZZ0000T3
- ISBN 9780226727172 / 0226727173
- Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 8.46 x 5.52 x 0.7 in (21.49 x 14.02 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 68016713
- Dewey Decimal Code 345.025
First line
Far into the nineteenth century, Washington remained a small, rather provincial city.
From the rear cover
In this brilliant study, Charles Rosenberg uses the celebrated trial of Charles Guiteau, who assassinated President Garfield in 1881, to explore insanity and criminal responsibility in the Gilded Age. Rosenberg masterfully reconstructs the courtroom battle waged by twenty-four expert witnesses who represented the two major schools of psychiatric thought of the generation immediately preceding Freud. Although the idea that genetics could play a role in behavior was just beginning to take hold in their day, these psychiatrists fiercely debated whether heredity had predisposed Guiteau to assassinate Garfield. Rosenberg's account allows us to consider one of the classic moments in the controversy over the criminal responsibility of the insane, a debate that still rages today.
