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Law's madness [electronic resource] / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2003. - 176 p. ; 22 cm. - The Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought . - Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Madness and law : an introduction / Martha Merrill Umphrey, Austin Sarat, and Lawrence Douglas -- Policing stories / Peter Brooks -- Narrating nymphomania between psychiatry and the law / Elizabeth Lunbeck -- "A situation so unique that it will probably never repeat itself" : madness, youth, and homicide in twentieth-century criminal jurisprudence / Jonathan Simon -- The claims of the dead : history, haunted property, and the law / Cathy Caruth -- Rethinking legal ideals after deconstruction / Drucilla Cornell.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Law--Psychological aspects.
Insanity (Law)

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: K346 / .L397 2003eb

Dewey Class. No.: 340/.19