The Good Doctor Guillotin and His Strange Device
Author: André Soubiran
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 244
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The Good Doctor Guillotin and His Strange Device
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarsh Justice
Author: James Q. Whitman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-04-14
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0198035314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCriminal punishment in America is harsh and degrading--more so than anywhere else in the liberal west. Executions and long prison terms are commonplace in America. Countries like France and Germany, by contrast, are systematically mild. European offenders are rarely sent to prison, and when they are, they serve far shorter terms than their American counterparts. Why is America so comparatively harsh? In this novel work of comparative legal history, James Whitman argues that the answer lies in America's triumphant embrace of a non-hierarchical social system and distrust of state power which have contributed to a law of punishment that is more willing to degrade offenders.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Author: Mary Roach
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2004-05-17
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0393069192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach’s “acutely entertaining, morbidly fascinating” (Susan Adams, Forbes) classic, now with a new epilogue. For two thousand years, cadavers – some willingly, some unwittingly – have been involved in science’s boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They’ve tested France’s first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender confirmation surgery, cadavers have helped make history in their quiet way. “Delightful—though never disrespectful” (Les Simpson, Time Out New York), Stiff investigates the strange lives of our bodies postmortem and answers the question: What should we do after we die? “This quirky, funny read offers perspective and insight about life, death and the medical profession. . . . You can close this book with an appreciation of the miracle that the human body really is.” —Tara Parker-Pope, Wall Street Journal “Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting.” —Entertainment Weekly
The Theology of Medicine
Author: Thomas Szasz
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 1988-04-01
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780815602255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExecuting the Mentally Ill
Author: Kent S. Miller
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1993-06-25
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780803951501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the case of Alvin Ford, an American death row inmate, this thought-provoking book focuses on the issues raised when the criminal justice system attempts to apply the death penalty to the mentally impaired. Issues addressed include: the definition of mental illness for the purposes of exemption from execution; the evaluation of competence for execution by mental health professionals; the consequences of disagreements among health professionals about a defendant's mental status; and the fate of prisoners who are exempted. Ford's unique case leads the authors to examine more general issues such as the involvement of health professionals in modern capital sentencing, as well as the administration of the death penalty i
The Lion Boy and Other Medical Curiosities
Author: Jan Bondeson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2018-03-15
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 144567629X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA historian’s research skills combined with a physician’s diagnostic flair, exploring our timeless fascination with the unusual and downright bizarre people, events and theories in the colourful history of medicine.
Stiff
Author: Mary Roach
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2003-03-25
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780393050936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn oddly compelling, often hilarious forensic exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem.
The Manufacture of Madness
Author: Thomas Szasz
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 1997-04-01
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780815604617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this seminal work, Dr. Szasz examines the similarities between the Inquisition and institutional psychiatry. His purpose is to show “that the belief in mental illness and the social actions to which it leads have the same moral implications and political consequences as had the belief in witchcraft and the social actions to which it led.”
The Rediscovery of America
Author: Stuart Andrews
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1998-10-15
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1349269344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Rediscovery of America features some twenty representatives of England, France and America, whose careers in some sense straddled the Atlantic in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. While not establishing causal links between the American and French Revolutions, the collective weight of these individual responses to the new America supports the idea of an 'Atlantic Revolution'. This study of the writings and transatlantic experiences of the revolutionary generation shows the power of American images in shaping political rhetoric, if not political reality.
