"In concise yet thorough and detailed chapters, the volume describes adult and child cases involving such conditions as traumatic brain injury, multiple chemical sensitivity, cerebral anoxia, and electrical injury. The contributors explain the background of each case and review …
Brings together leading neuropsychologists to reveals the nuts and bolts of forensic practice. This work presents an array of adult and child cases, involving such conditions as traumatic brain injury, multiple chemical sensitivity, cerebral anoxia, and electrical injury.
Contrary to the view that Holocaust survivors have only recently begun to tell their stories due to a new flourishing culture of witnessing, writing on the Holocaust actually began at the time of the events and continued thereafter. Between 1945-49, 75 memoirs were published. Ho…
Zo--euml--; Waxman examines the full history of Holocaust testimony, from the very first chroniclers confined to Nazi-enforced ghettos, to today's survivors writing as part of collective memory. Showing how dramatically the conditions and motivations for bearing witness have cha…
Children's Testimony offers a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of issues relating to children's evidence. Starting with psychological underpinnings and child protection considerations, the chapters are by international experts.
The role of testimony in the getting of reliable belief or knowledge is a central but neglected epistemological issue. Western philosophical tradition has paid scant attention to the individual thinker's reliance upon the word of others; yet this reliance is both extensive and o…
"From analytic epistemology to gender theory, testimony is a major topic in philosophy today. Yet, one distinctive approach to testimony has not been fully appreciated: the recent history of contemporary continental philosophy offers a rich source for another approach to testimo…
Every year hundreds of defendants are convicted on little more than the say-so of a fellow citizen. In "Eyewitness Testimony", Elizabeth Loftus makes the psychological case against the eyewitness. Beginning with the basics of eyewitness fallibility, such as poor viewing conditio…
Every year hundreds of defendants are convicted on little more than the say-so of a fellow citizen. In "Eyewitness Testimony", Elizabeth Loftus makes the psychological case against the eyewitness. Beginning with the basics of eyewitness fallibility, such as poor viewing conditio…
