{"product_id":"science-and-justice-9781421430430","title":"Science and Justice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1968. Far from being an isolated outburst of community insanity or hysteria, the Massachusetts witchcraft trials were an accurate reflection of the scientific ethos of the seventeenth century. Witches were seldom hanged without supporting medical evidence. Professor Fox clarifies this use of scientific knowledge by examining the Scientific Revolution's impact on the witchcraft trials. He suggests that much of the scientific ineptitude and lack of sophistication that characterized the witchcraft cases is still present in our modern system of justice. In the historical context of seventeenth-century witch hunts and in an effort to stimulate those who must design and operate a just jurisprudence today, Fox asks what the proper legal role of medical scienceespecially psychiatryshould be in any society. The legal system of seventeenth-century Massachusetts was weakened by an uncritical reliance on scientific judgments, and the scientific assumptions upon which the co\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by Sheldon Glueck\u003cbr\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. A Case Study in Law and Science \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Roots of Massachusetts Witchcraft\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The Views of Scientists \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. The Law and Nature of Massachusetts Witchcraft 35\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Maleficium and Cause of Death \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Witchcraft and Disease \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Science and the Identification of Witches: Female Experts\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. The Defense of Insanity \u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. The Law-Science Relationship Then and Now \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408129859927,"sku":"9781421430430","price":23.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/science-and-justice-9781421430430","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}