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21879685

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
83 Pt 3
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-9-1
pubmed:abstractText
This article surveys evolving and competing medico-legal concepts of pyromania and insane arson. Exploiting evidence from medical jurisprudence, medico-legal publications, medical lexicography and case histories, it seeks to explicate the key positions in contemporary professional debates concerning arson and mental derangement. A major focus is the application of the doctrines of moral and partial insanity, monomania, instinctive insanity and irresistible impulse to understandings of pyromania and insane arson. The limited extent to which mental defect provided a satisfactory diagnosis and exculpatory plea for morbid arson is also explored. Additionally, this article compares and contrasts contemporary debates about other special manias, especially kleptomania. Part 2 will be published in the next issue, History of Psychiatry 21 (4).
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
QIS
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0957-154X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
21
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
243-60
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
From stack-firing to pyromania: medico-legal concepts of insane arson in British, US and European contexts, c. 1800-1913. Part I.
pubmed:affiliation
School of Historical Studies & Northern Centre for the History of Medicine, Newcastle University, Armstrong Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK. jonathan.andrews@ncl.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Historical Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't