A TREATISE ON THE MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE OF INSANITY

Ray, Isaac

Published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge and London, 1962

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[ii]+xvii+[1]+376+[4]pp appendices, list of cases, index green cloth with gilt spine lettering and gilt front logo almost as new. A very good copy in unchipped pictorial dust jacket with some wear and small edge tears. Inside as new. Edited by Winfred Overholser. Beginning as an obscure medical practitioner in a small Maine town, Isaac Ray became the most influential American writer on forensic psychiatry in the nineteenth century. His Treatise, first published in 1838, was the first authoritative and comprehensive treatment in English on the relation between law and psychiatry. Size: Ca 16 x 24cm.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A TREATISE ON THE MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE OF INSANITY
• Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge and London
• Publication Date: 1962
• Binding: Leinen
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Book Type: Eng
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