scholarly journals The Disorderly Female: Alcohol, Prostitution and Moral Insanity in 19th-Century Fremantle

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-348
Author(s):  
Alexandra Wallis
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Moral Insanity

Prichard and the Concept of Moral Insanity

1967 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. A. Whitlock
Keyword(s):  
Affective Disorder ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Unethical Behaviour ◽  
Moral Insanity ◽  
Legal Implications ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Psychopathic Disorder

This paper examines the generally accepted belief that the English physician, J. C. Prichard, under the heading of “moral insanity”, gave the first description of psychopathic disorder (sociopathy). The historical evidence indicates quite clearly that Prichard was using the term “moral” to denote affective disorder and not antisocial or unethical behaviour. Despite this, lawyers and doctors of the 19th century believed that he was describing persons whose illness was shown by persistent immoral acts and behaviour. The subsequent controversy has been traced out and the manner in which this has influenced current legal and forensic thought on psychopathic offenders is described. It is suggested that in order to clarify our thinking about this issue it is necessary to delete references to Prichard's moral insanity concept when psychopathic disorder is being considered; and that jurists should understand that moral insanity, with all its legal implications, has nothing to do with present-day concepts of psychopathic disorder.

EMF—a 19th-Century mistake

IEE Review ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
Michael V. Worstall
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century

Grammatical Descriptions in Manchu Grammar Books from the Qing Dynasty

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-55
Author(s):  
Takashi Takekoshi
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Qing Dynasty ◽  
The Qing Dynasty ◽  
Chinese Scholars ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The 19Th Century

In this paper, we analyse features of the grammatical descriptions in Manchu grammar books from the Qing Dynasty. Manchu grammar books exemplify how Chinese scholars gave Chinese names to grammatical concepts in Manchu such as case, conjugation, and derivation which exist in agglutinating languages but not in isolating languages. A thorough examination reveals that Chinese scholarly understanding of Manchu grammar at the time had attained a high degree of sophistication. We conclude that the reason they did not apply modern grammatical concepts until the end of the 19th century was not a lack of ability but because the object of their grammatical descriptions was Chinese, a typical isolating language.

The Kitajskaja grammatika (1835) and Bičurin’s ideas on the “mechanism” of Chinese between European and Chinese grammatical traditions

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-77
Author(s):  
Anna Di Toro
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Early 19Th Century

The main contribution of Bičurin in the field of Chinese language, the Kitajskaja grammatika (1835), is still quite understudied, even though it represents the first grammar of Chinese written in Russian. Through a rapid overview of some of the early grammars of Chinese written by European authors and the analysis of some sections of the book, in which the Russian sinologist expounds the mechanism of Chinese, the paper dwells on the original ideas on this language developed by the Russian sinologist, inspired both by European and Chinese grammatical traditions. A particular attention is devoted to Bičurin’s concept of “mental modification”, related to the linguistic ideas discussed in Europe in the early 19th century.

Immigrant Arab Women in Chile during the Renaissance (Nahda), 1910s-1920s

1970 ◽  
pp. 47-55
Author(s):  
Sarah Limorté
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
New World ◽  
Arab Women ◽  
Arab Woman ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 19Th Century

Levantine immigration to Chile started during the last quarter of the 19th century. This immigration, almost exclusively male at the outset, changed at the beginning of the 20th century when women started following their fathers, brothers, and husbands to the New World. Defining the role and status of the Arab woman within her community in Chile has never before been tackled in a detailed study. This article attempts to broach the subject by looking at Arabic newspapers published in Chile between 1912 and the end of the 1920s. A thematic analysis of articles dealing with the question of women or written by women, appearing in publications such as Al-Murshid, Asch-Schabibat, Al-Watan, and Oriente, will be discussed.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document