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Anatomical Studies Upon Brains Of Criminals: A Contribution To Anthropology, Medicine, Jurisprudence, And Psychology

Anatomical Studies Upon Brains Of Criminals: A Contribution To Anthropology, Medicine, Jurisprudence, And Psychology

Benedikt, Moriz

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AnthropologyBiologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354486746
ISBN13: 9789354486746
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 18 2021
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Can the brain bear witness in court? In Moriz Benedikt's probing Anatomical Studies Upon Brains Of Criminals, the answer is pursued with scalpel-sharp attention. Facts, not folklore, lead here. Part forensic psychiatry treatise, part medical anthropology monograph, this scientific criminology classic examines criminal brain anatomy as evidence for the neuropathology of criminals and the biology of violent behaviour. Benedikt writes from the laboratories and courtrooms of nineteenth century Europe, when Victorian era criminology was redefining responsibility, insanity, and punishment. The result is a sober, data-minded work that speaks to readers curious about how medicine once tried to measure morality, and to those who follow the long argument between environment and biology in crime. Its clinical gaze moves between skull, cortex, and conduct, raising questions that still trouble courts: diagnosis or excuse, defect or choice, patient or perpetrator. The language is period-true, yet the stakes feel current. Read it as history, or as a mirror to debate. Historically, it stands beside the debates ignited by Cesare Lombroso criminal anthropology, offering a crucial, sometimes unsettling, counterpoint in the early history of forensic medicine reference writing, and a bridge between anthropology, medicine, jurisprudence, and psychology. Today it remains valuable to criminology students and scholars, historians of psychiatry, and collectors of foundational medical texts, not least because it is the complete public domain text in a clean modern presentation. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today -- a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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