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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Auteur principal : Davis Kevin (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : The brain defense : murder in Manhattan and the dawn of neuroscience in America's courtrooms / Kevin Davis
Publié : New York : Penguin Press , 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (326 pages)
Sujets :
  • 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