caa a22 4500 386354537 CHVBK 20180307111846.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0033291700012332 doi S0033291700012332 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0033291700012332 Smith Roger Department of History, University of Lancaster Expertise, procedure and the possibility of a comparative history of forensic psychiatry in the nineteenth century [Elektronische Daten] [Roger Smith] The comparative history of forensic psychiatry may help unravel relations between legal and administrative procedure, medical knowledge and expertise, and social interests, as they determine judgements about the criminal responsibility of the mentally disordered. But little has been done to compare the past or the present under different jurisdictions. This paper, therefore, suggests some points which would encourage such comparisons, and particularly a comparison between France and England in the nineteenth century, for both of which countries there is now a valuable historical literature. It also illustrates the complex interaction of procedure and medical expertise by reference to the case of George Victor Townley (1863). Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 19/2(1989-05), 289-300 0033-2917 19:2<289 1989 19 PSM https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291700012332 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291700012332 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Smith Roger Department of History, University of Lancaster NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 19/2(1989-05), 289-300 0033-2917 19:2<289 1989 19 PSM CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge