1. Moral insanity came to be increasingly seen as a form of genetically-inherited degeneracy,2. Both moral insanity and monomania were depicted in Victorian novels and movies of the time. 3. Such conditions might have been otherwise labeled at the time as forms of moral insanity . 4. They do not have a monopoly on moral insanity . 5. Moral insanity was for disorders that only seemed to arise from a person's feelings and habits, not their intellect.6. In the late 19th century, Koch referred to " psychopathic inferiority " as a new term for moral insanity . 7. His scientific activities where very versatile ranging from moral insanity and dementia to epilepsy, progressive paralysis and Huntington's disease. 8. The concept of moral insanity was indebted to the work of physician Philippe Pinel, which was acknowledged by Prichard. 9. Samuel Warren wrote of Oxford in the second of his series of'Modern State Trials'entitled'High Treason and Murder-Moral Insanity '. 10. Several writers have sounded caution over the notion that the diagnostic category of moral insanity was a direct forerunner of psychopathic disorder.
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