The brain defense : murder in Manhattan and the dawn of neuroscience in America's courtrooms
"In 1991, the police were called to East 72nd St. in Manhattan, where a woman's body had fallen from a twelfth-story window. The woman's husband, Herbert Weinstein, soon confessed to having hit and strangled his wife after an argument, then dropping her body out of their apartment win...
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Format : | Livre |
Langue : | anglais |
Titre complet : | The brain defense : murder in Manhattan and the dawn of neuroscience in America's courtrooms / Kevin Davis |
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New York :
Penguin Press
, 2017 |
Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (326 pages) |
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- We found something in Mr. Weinstein's brain
- Lawyers, brains, and colorful pictures
- A charming man
- The brain blame evolution
- Inside Weinstein's brain
- "That's not my Dad!"
- A trip to Iowa
- The young brain defense
- The rich man's defense
- When neuroscientists come to court
- The brain science battle
- Deadly tumor
- What's a picture worth?
- Not one healthy brain
- The death penalty attorney and the broken brain
- "What possible harm can I be?"
- Defending America's defenders
- The head-banger defense
- The future of neurolaw and the brain defense