Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-176) and index.
Contents
Issue of insane homicide -- Theoretical boundaries of dangerousness, 1800-1840 -- Development of a medical jurisprudence of insanity -- From static brain to dynamic neurophysiology, 1840-1870 -- Non-asylum treatment of the insane -- Homicidal insanity and the unstable nervous system, 1870-1910 -- Psychoanalysis and medical criminology -- Somatic and dynamic dangerousness, 1910-1960 -- Prediction, confidentiality and the duty to warn -- Phenomenology of homicidal insanity.