Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reasoning with Madness
Chapter 1. Framing the Issue: What Rhetoric Can Offer to the Conversation
Chapter 2. A Brief History of Western Thought on Mental Illness and Its Relevance to the Law
Chapter 3. Knowing Right from Wrong: The Trial of Daniel McNaughtan
Chapter 4. Late Nineteenth-Century Insanity Defense Jurisprudence: Parsons, Davis, and the “Irresistible Impulse” Test
Chapter 5. Mid-Twentieth-Century Insanity Defense Jurisprudence: Durham v. United States and the “Product” Test
Chapter 6. Late Twentieth-Century Insanity Defense Jurisprudence: The Trial of John Hinckley Jr. and the Insanity Defense Reform Act
Conclusion. The Insanity Defense Since Hinckley
Appendix 1. Parsons v. State
Appendix 2. Davis v. United States
Appendix 3. Durham v. United States
Appendix 4. Hinkley Letter to Jodie Foster
Notes
Bibliography
Index