Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years.The predominant opinion today among psychiatrists is that no correlation exists between dangerousness and specific mental disorders.But for generation after generation, psychiatrists have reported cases of insane homicide that were clinically similar.Although psychiatric theory changed and psychiatric nosology was inconsistent, the mental phenomena psychiatrists identified in such cases remained the same.The central thesis...
Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change durin...
In this first effort to define an American scientific community, originally published in 1968, George Daniels has chosen for special study the 56 scientists most published in the 16 scientific journals identified as national during the period 1815 to 1845.In this reprint edition, with a new preface and introduction, Daniels shows how American scientists emerged from a disorganized group of amateurs into a professional body sharing a common orientation and common goals."
In this first effort to define an American scientific community, originally published in 1968, George Daniels has chosen for special study the 56 s...
This is an account of a classic turf battle in Washington, D.C. and one that kept flaring up for decades. The fact that it has not been resolved whether military or civilian organizations can conduct federal scientific investigations better, or whether the military should do anything more than defense, lends a timelessness to this story.
This is an account of a classic turf battle in Washington, D.C. and one that kept flaring up for decades. The fact that it has not been resolved wheth...
