The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms
A Nonfiction, History, True Crime book. I loved this book so much in galleys that it's the only book I agreed to blurb this year....
In 1991, the police were called to East 72nd St. in Manhattan, where a woman's body had fallen from a twelfth-story window. The woman s husband, Herbert Weinstein, soon confessed to having hit and strangled his wife after an argument, then dropping her body out of their apartment window to make it look like a suicide. The 65-year-old Weinstein, a quiet, unassuming retired advertising executive, had no criminal record, no history of violent...
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While this book covered ground I've traveled in other brain books (the ubiquitous Phineas Gage puts in his usual appearance), it took the unique angle of tracing how neuroscience entered and has impacted the law courts. Author Davis uses the case of a middle-aged Manhattan man who got in a tussle with his second wife, strangled her,... Audiobook during my commute this week. Extremely interesting look into mental health/brain function as explanations, not excuses, for crime. Some of the current studies are going on at Vanderbilt. If this subject interests you, I recommend. The cases are explained well for non legal or psychiatric expertise. I loved this book so much in galleys that it's the only book I agreed to blurb this year. I guess I'll post that here, since it forced me to be succinct:The Brain Defense is a stirring ride into a fascinating new field. Can a tumor or traumatic brain injury explain rape or murder? Can they diminish culpability? If your instinct screams...
