Legal medicine in history / edited by Michael Clark and Catherine Crawford.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1994.
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| Series: | Cambridge history of medicine.
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Table of Contents:
- Forensic medicine in early colonial Maryland, 1633-83 / Helen Brock and Catherine Crawford--The scope of legal medicine in Lancashire and Cheshire, 1660-1760 / David Harley--Suspicious infant deaths: the statute of 1624 and medical evidence at coroners' inquests / Mark Jackson--Legalizing medicine: early modern legal systems and the growth of medico-legal knowledge / Catherine Crawford--Infanticide trials and forensic medicine: Wurttemberg, 1757-93 / Mary Nagel Wessling--Training medical policemen: forensic medicine and public health in nineteenth-century Scotland / Brenda White.
- (cont.) "I answer as a physician": opinion as fact in pre-McNaughtan insanity trials / Joel Peter Eigen--Understanding the terrorist: anarchism, medicine and politics in fin-de-siecle France / Ruth Harris--Malingerers, the "weak-minded" criminal and the "moral imbecile": how the English prison medical officer became an expert in mental deficiency, 1880-1930 / Stephen Watson--The magistrate of the poor? Coroners and deaths in custody in nineteenth-century England / Joe Sim and Tony Ward--Coroners, corruption and the politics of death: forensic pathology in the United States / Julie Johnson--Unbuilt Bloomsbury: medico-legal institutes and forensic science laboratories in England between the wars / Norman Ambage and Michael Clark--Rex v. Bourne and the medicalization of abortion / Barbara Brookes and Paul Roth.