Article ID: CBB000082746

The authority of shadows: The legal embrace of the X-ray (1998)

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Description “This paper tells the story of the 1896 legal case of Smith vs. Grant--the first American case in which X-ray photographs were allowed to be admitted in evidence before a jury.”


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Authors & Contributors
Kushner, Howard I.
Asen, Daniel
Bates, Victoria
Bertomeu Sánchez, José Ramón
Crowther, M. A.
Eigen, Joel Peter
Journals
History of Psychiatry
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
British Journal of Sociology
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Economy and Society
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Clarendon Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Rutgers University Press
Concepts
Forensic medicine
Medicine and law
Suicide
Medicine
Autopsy
Physicians; doctors
People
Durkheim, Émile
Alberti, Michael
Bernt, Johann Joseph
Latham, John
Lincoln, Abraham
Granville, Augustus Bozzi
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Places
France
British Isles
England
Central Europe
China
Germany
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