Book ID: CBB000041833

Legal medicine in history (1994)

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Clark, Michael (Editor)
Crawford, Catherine (Editor)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 1994
Physical Details: xi + 364 pp.; notes; index

Description Contents: Brock, Helen, Crawford, Catherine: Forensic medicine in early colonial Maryland, 1633-83. Harley, David: The scope of legal medicine in Lancashire and Cheshire, 1660-1760. Jackson, Mark: Suspicious infant deaths: The statute of 1624 and medical evidence at coroners' inquests. Crawford, Catherine: Legalizing medicine: Early modern legal systems and the growth of medico-legal knowledge. Wessling, Mary Nagle: Infanticide trials and forensic medicine: Württemberg, 1757-93. White, Brenda: Training medical policemen: Forensic medicine and public health in 19th-century Scotland. Eigen, Joel Peter: “I answer as a physician”: Opinion as fact in pre-McNaughtan insanity trials. Harris, Ruth: Understanding the terrorist: Anarchism, medicine and politics in fin-de-siècle France. Watson, Stephen: Malingerers, the “weakminded” criminal and the “moral imbecile”: How the English prison medical officer became an expert in mental deficiency, 1880-1930. Sim, Joe, Ward, Tony: The magistrate of the poor? Coroners and deaths in custody in 19th-century England. Johnson, Julie: Coroners, corruption and the politics of death: Forensic pathology in the United States. Ambage, Norman, Clark, Michael: Unbuilt Bloomsbury: Medico-legal institutes and forensic science laboratories in England between the wars. Brookes, Barbara, Roth, Paul: Rev v. Bourne and the medicalization of abortion.


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Authors & Contributors
Lindeboom, G. A.
Bodde, Derk
Hooff, Anton J. L. van
Lu, Gwei-Djen
Needham, Joseph
Klee, Ernst
Journals
Medical History
Journal of the American Oriental Society
Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis
Psychological Medicine
Årsbok. Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala
Journal of the History of Sexuality
Publishers
Rodopi
Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
Harvard University Press
Steinmassl
Rutgers University
University of Pennsylvania
Concepts
Forensic medicine
Euthanasia
Suicide
Medicine
Medicine and law
Sexual behavior
People
Branca, Giovanni
With, George Henry
Wakley, Thomas
Prichard, James Cowles
Granville, Augustus Bozzi
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
Places
North America: United States; Canada
Central Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Eastern Asia: China, Japan, Korea
British Isles
Spain
Central Europe
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