Marriage, Madness and Murder

Culpability and Commonsense Justice: Lessons Learned Betwixt Murder and Madness

Murder and madness: medicine, law, and society in the fin de siècle

the three chapters on "the species question" in the decades before Darwin. Here the discussion leaves the roads well-trampled by historians of evolution, and brings to light many important but hitherto unread works that bear directly on the question. He emphasizes the importance of continental discussions of the origin of species, thus connecting this study with his recent The age of Lamarck (1...

Madness, suicide and the Victorian asylum: attempted self-murder in the age of non-restraint.

On 20 July 1870, Catherine Tyrrell found herself transferred to another asylum. The 32-year-old nurse suffering from melancholia had previously been a private patient in Bethlem Hospital; but, having had her twelve months expire at that institution,' she was conveyed across the metropolis and into the bucolic countryside and county asylum of Buckinghamshire.2 Up to this point, Catherine had had...

Madness

here are clouds in the painting, of course. Almost any one of us would have included those clouds, thick with electricity and rainwater. And there is the wheat field, smudged out like an empty palm, orange beneath the storm-stricken sun. Surely, many of us would have insisted on the wheat as well. Through the middle of the wheat, a rutted road slices to the horizon and disappears beneath the cl...

Morbid Jealousy and Murder

tresses were unfaithful to them. As murderers go, they were an elderly group, of average age 474 years. Unlike ordinary, jealous lovers, their attacks were nearly always upon wives, rather than upon supposed rivals. The latter, being imaginary, could never be caught in the act and were only hazily identified. As with most deluded patients, these murderers seemed driven by emotional necessity to...