The boundary between insanity and criminal responsibility in nineteenth-century England

Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 363-384

  Smith, Roger ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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