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
Forbes, Thomas Rogers
Smith, Roger C.
Crawford, C. J.
Darmon, Pierre
Crowther, M. A.
White, Brenda M.
Journals
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Psychological Medicine
Historical Journal
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Medical History
Publishers
Éditions du Seuil
Clarendon Press
Stanford University Press
University of Wisconsin at Madison
University of California, Berkeley
Bonanno Editore
Concepts
Forensic medicine
Medicine and law
Suicide
Medicine
Criminology
Criminal law
People
Hyde, Benjamin Talbot Babbitt
Wakley, Thomas
Gandolfi, Giovanni
Barbut, Marc
Prichard, James Cowles
Granville, Augustus Bozzi
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
16th century
17th century
18th century
Places
British Isles
France
England
Spain
Central Europe
United States
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