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SUMMARY:Mapping the Criminal Brain: Murder\, Morphology\, and the Rise of the Psychiatric Expert Witness
DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science\, Medicine\, and Technology Colloquium Series. Dr. Wendy Kline Purdue University’s Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine and Director of the Medical Humanities Program\, will be joining us. She is a will be presenting “Mapping the Criminal Brain: Murder\, Morphology\, and the Rise of the Psychiatric Expert Witness.” \nIn 1901\, medical student Edward Anthony Spitzka autopsied Leon Colgosz’s brain just after he was executed for assassinating President McKinley. It was a transformative moment not just for his career\, but also for the psychiatric profession. Mapping the brain – its size and structure\, its electrical impulses\, its composition\, and its injuries – enabled psychiatric knowledge to enter the criminal courtroom. Forensic psychiatrists presented judges\, lawyers\, and jurors with a new way of understanding the mind of the murderer\, and\, more generally\, the secrets of the human brain. \nSee you in the History of Science Room (Bunche 5288) or via Zoom\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/x_2_DIHoTwGOu8rZFNIBIw.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/mapping-the-criminal-brain-murder-morphology-and-the-rise-of-the-psychiatric-expert-witness/
LOCATION:Bunche 5288 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,History of Science Colloquium
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