Wherein?

Does "about murder trials wherein eminent psychiatrists for the defense are contradicted by..." mean "about murder trials in which eminent psychiatrists for the defense are refuted by..."?

Context:

The question is neither capricious nor itself insane. However much we may be personally convinced that we can tell the normal from the abnormal, the evidence is simply not compelling. It is commonplace, for example, to read about murder trials wherein eminent psychiatrists for the defense are contradicted by equally eminent psychiatrists for the prosecution on the matter of the defendants sanity. More generally, there are a great deal of conflicting data on the reliability, utility, and meaning of such terms assanity,insanity,mental illness, andschizophrenia. Finally, as early as 1934, {Ruth} Benedict suggested that normality and abnormality are notuniversal.[1] What is viewed as normal in one culture may be seen as quite aberrant in another. Thus, notions of normality and abnormality may not be
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