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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