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Crime and madness at the opposite shores of the Adriatic: moral insanity in Italian and Croatian psychiatric discourses
Acta medico-historica Adriatica, 15 (2018), 2; 219-252. urn:nbn:hr:186:828004
D'Alessio, Vanni; Čeč, Filip; Karge, Heike

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D'Alessio, V., Čeč, F. & Karge, H. (2018). Crime and madness at the opposite shores of the Adriatic: moral insanity in Italian and Croatian psychiatric discourses. Acta medico-historica Adriatica, 15. (2), 219-252. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:828004

D'Alessio, Vanni, et al. "Crime and madness at the opposite shores of the Adriatic: moral insanity in Italian and Croatian psychiatric discourses." Acta medico-historica Adriatica, vol. 15, no. 2, 2018, pp. 219-252. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:828004

D'Alessio, Vanni, Filip Čeč and Heike Karge. "Crime and madness at the opposite shores of the Adriatic: moral insanity in Italian and Croatian psychiatric discourses." Acta medico-historica Adriatica 15, no. 2 (2018): 219-252. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:828004

D'Alessio, V., Čeč, F. and Karge, H. (2018) 'Crime and madness at the opposite shores of the Adriatic: moral insanity in Italian and Croatian psychiatric discourses', Acta medico-historica Adriatica, 15(2), pp. 219-252. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:828004 (Accessed 19 November 2024)

D'Alessio V, Čeč F, Karge H. Crime and madness at the opposite shores of the Adriatic: moral insanity in Italian and Croatian psychiatric discourses. Acta medico-historica Adriatica [Internet]. 2018 January [cited 2024 November 19];15(2):219-252. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:828004

V. D'Alessio, F. Čeč and H. Karge, "Crime and madness at the opposite shores of the Adriatic: moral insanity in Italian and Croatian psychiatric discourses", Acta medico-historica Adriatica, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 219-252, January 2018. [Online]. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:828004. [Accessed: 19 November 2024]

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Title (english)Crime and madness at the opposite shores of the Adriatic: moral insanity in Italian and Croatian psychiatric discourses
AuthorVanni D'Alessio
AuthorFilip Čeč
AuthorHeike Karge
Author's institutionUniversity of Rijeka
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies
Abstract (english)
In the 19th century, fervid debates arose in the young psychiatric science about how to deal with and to scientifically categorize human behaviour which was perceived as dangerous to society, and as criminal. There were two concepts that stood out in these transnationally held discussions; namely moral insanity and later on, psychopathy. Following recent approaches in the cultural and social history of psychiatry, we understand moral insanity and psychopathy as social constructs, which are determined by the evolution in psychiatric knowledge, and also by laws, codes and social norms of particular historical timeframes. Our task is to discuss the evolution and adoption of these concepts in two linguistically different, but still historically profoundly entangled regions, namely in Italian and Croatian psychiatric discourses at the turn from the 19th to the 20th century. Our analysis of two of the most important medical and psychiatric journals of the time shows that psychiatric debates on antisocial and criminal behaviour were in numerous ways entangled and shaped by the way the two societies scientifically, legally, and institutionally struggled over the question of how to detect and control the mentally incapacitated criminal offender.
Keywords (english)
Languageenglish
Publication typeScientific paper - Original scientific paper
Publication statusPublished
Peer reviewPeer review
Publication versionPublished version
Journal titleActa medico-historica Adriatica
Numberingvol. 15, no. 2, pp. 219-252
p-ISSN1334-4366
e-ISSN1334-6253
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:186:828004
Publication2018-01
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