The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms
A Science, True Crime, History book. This book was a fascinating look into the application of neuroscience to the law. Davis does a great...
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 behavior not even a short temper. How, then, to explain this horrific act? Journalist Kevin Davis uses the perplexing story of the Weinstein murder to present a riveting, deeply researched exploration of the intersection of neuroscience and criminal justice. Shortly after Weinstein was arrested, an MRI revealed a cyst the size of an orange on his brain's frontal lobe, the part of the brain that governs judgment and impulse control. Weinstein's lawyer seized on that discovery, arguing that the cyst had impaired Weinstein's judgment and that he should not be held criminally responsible for the murder. It was the first case in the United States in which a judge...
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- Pages: 384 pages
- ISBN: 9781594206337 / 0
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This book was a fascinating look into the application of neuroscience to the law. Davis does a great job of telling the legal story of Weinstein and weaving into neuroscience, related cases, the history of the study of the brain in law, and the benefits and dangerous misapplications of neuroscience in court. This was a great read, and... Author Kevin Davis' deeply researched story of how neuroscience is being erratically grafted with our legal system is compelling and thought-provoking. Even though the brain, the law and neuroscience are complex topics individually, Davis makes sense of their integration while engaging us emotionally in the stories of people he writes... "My brain made me do it." Sounds like a ridiculous defense but, with this book, Kevin Davis shows us the science making that phrase a real possibility. While I'm tempted to rehash some of the excellent material within, because it's a really fun topic to discuss, I'll instead stick to my thoughts on the book in general. First, the material...
