Interpreting Murder Medically A Medico-Legal Case from an Early 20th Century European Periphery

• Main Author: SKÅLEVÅG, Svein Atle
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: European University Institute 2007
• Subjects: Forensic psychiatry; history of medicine; criminal responsibility; racism; Norway; Departure Point; Northern Norway
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/7356

The paper takes as its departure point a murder case from 1911, when four siblings killed their younger brother in a remote location in northern Norway. This episode becomes an occasion for discussing medical and juridical interpretations of human agency at the turn of the century, and especially of...