Madness, Malingering & Malfeasance

Author: R. Gregory Lande
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: B007K528Q2

Madness, Malingering & Malfeasance: The Transformation of Psychiatry and the Law in the Civil War Era

MADNESS, MALINGERING, AND MALFEASANCE is a groundbreaking study that clearly describes the development of medical and legal practices provoked by the turmoil of the American Civil War. Get Madness, Malingering & Malfeasance diet books 2013 for free.
Citing numerous period documents, R. Gregory Lande shatters the romantic myth that all Civil War soldiers were men of honor. He demonstrates that underneath the veneer of Victorian respectability and its accompanying moral code, men suffered frequent breakdowns under the pressures of war. Lande exposes numerous acts of insubordination, alcohol abuse, desertion, and violent crimes against fellow soldiers and civilians. Courts-martial determined the punishment for such transgressions.

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Citing numerous period documents, R. Gregory Lande shatters the romantic myth that all Civil War soldiers were men of honor. He demonstrates that underneath the veneer of Victorian respectability and its accompanying moral code, men suffered frequent breakdowns under the pressures of war. Lande exposes numerous acts of insubordination, alcohol abuse, desertion, and violent crimes against fellow soldiers and civilians

Lande convincingly demonstrates that the scientific understanding of

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