TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blumenthal,Susanna L.
TI  - Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture 
SN  - 9780674495517
AV  - KF9242 .B58 2016
U1  - 346.7301/38 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Common law
KW  - United States
KW  - Common sense
KW  - Insanity (Law)
KW  - Liability (Law)
KW  - Mental health laws
KW  - LAW / Legal History
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part I. The Testimony of Consciousness --; Chapter 1. Common Sense and Common Law --; Chapter 2. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity --; Part II. The Mind in Issue --; Chapter 3. Unnatural Dispositions --; Chapter 4. The Eccentricity of the Will --; Chapter 5. Speculative Mania in the Age of Contract --; Chapter 6. The Consideration of Love --; Chapter 7. The Responsible Originator --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Headline-grabbing murders are not the only cases in which sanity has been disputed in the American courtroom. Susanna Blumenthal traces this litigation, revealing how ideas of human consciousness, agency, and responsibility have shaped American jurisprudence as judges struggled to reconcile Enlightenment rationality with new sciences of the mind
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674495517
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674495517
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674495517/original
ER  -