The Rules of Insanity: Moral Responsibility and the Mentally Ill Offender
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (817 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0791429512 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 143 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Richard Schmitt, Brown University Sitton s book covers an astonishing range of topics in recent Marxian theory. The author has done so with a great sense of balance and intellectual brilliance. In certain respects it is a tour de force. It should be of great interest to anyone who wants an overview of much of the intellectual terrain of recent Marxism. This is a major contribution. Furthermore, the book is as well written as any work in social theory I can recall. Sitton uses his reading to construct a political theory of his own that deserves being taken very seriously. Carl Boggs, National University and UCLA Recent Marxian Theory is very learned; it surveys an impressive range of recent work in Marxist theory and does so with considerable penetration, care, and insight. To take up the thematic of class agency and proletariat in Marxist theory, to subject it to a variety of sympathetic and not-so-sym
Carl Elliott is Assistant Professor at McGill University Faculty of Medicine and Clinical Ethicist at Montreal Children's Hospital.
wothless dck This book was useless. I expected it to be thick and legthy. It was suprisingly thin. Finished it in a couple of hours. It looks like a lot of work went into writing and collaborating it, for that it deserves and honourable mention. I wouldnt reccomend it to the average person. I hope someone come forth with an offer before i pitch it.
What is special is the author's easy familiarity with the clinical problems (he is a physician), his well reasoned, well written, jargon free argument, and his capacity to go back and forth from general principles to particular cases and disorders. Other treatments tend to be more legally oriented and to make light of the more fundamental philosophical and ethical issues. This book has a unique niche--its conclusions are responsible--it teaches a lot." -- Michael Schwartz, M.D., Case Western Reserve University. Arguing