Eros or Ethnos: Pioneering statistical survey on prostitution at the beginning of the 20th century

Kuhar, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.clindermatol.2014.12.017

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“…Although ultimately unsuccessful in overthrowing this tradition, Lombroso's efforts shifted the focus from the criminal act to a perpetrator of the criminal act, and his theory profoundly influenced forensic psychiatry in Croatia. Since Lombroso originated from a neighbouring country of Italy, many Croatian physicians and lawyers debated on the validity of his theory, and for a limited amount of time Lombroso's ideas were able to partially penetrate the upper echelons of Croatian medico-legal system (Kuhar, 2015a(Kuhar, , 2015bKuhar and Fatović-Ferenčić, 2012).…”

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‘They accused me of strangling her’: epilepsy and violence debate in Croatia at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries

Kuhar

Fatović‐Ferenčić

2017

Hist Psychiatry

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Nineteenth-century psychiatry shifted its focus to the brain as the seat of mental disorders. With a new understanding of mental disorders arose the need to consult forensic psychiatrists in cases of criminal acts committed by persons with mental illness. This article focuses on three murders committed by 'epileptics' at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries in Croatia. An analysis of these cases will help to situate forensic psychiatry at the turn of the century within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and reveal the authority that forensic experts wielded in the courts. We will argue that Cesare Lombroso's biological theory of crime, as well as the influence of eugenicists and pharmaceutical companies, shaped the long-standing relationship between epilepsy and violent behaviour.

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confidence: 99%