All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
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Murder in the Psychiatric Journal, 1864-1922
| Between the trials of the murderers George Townley (1864) and Ronald True (1922), various murders were discussed in the premier British psychiatric journal, the Journal of Mental Science, the mouthpiece of the Medico-Psychological Association. In this paper, I will examine the uses to which these murder reports were put, and will argue that they are best understood in conjunction with the rising profile of psychiatry in the second half of the nineteenth century. Psychiatrists attempted to emphasise their own expertise in understanding many of these murders, and struggled to have their own work accepted in court. Their changing fortunes can be seen in the responses to various crimes by psychiatrist. In the same texts, we can discern the growth of psychiatric knowledge, and can follow the various strategies that psychiatrists used in order to justify their presence in high-profile capital cases between these two prominent trials. It will be argued that these murder reports are not simply accounts of criminal activity, but were a part of the changing identity of psychiatrists in a period of drastic change.
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