Legal medicine in history / edited by Michael Clark and Catherine Crawford.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Medical jurisprudence -- history.

1. Early modern practice: 1. Forensic medicine in early colonial Maryland, 1633-83

2. The scope of legal medicine in Lancashire and Cheshire, 1660-1760

3. Suspicious infant deaths: the statute of 1624 and medical evidence at coroners' inquests

2. The growth of a science:

4. Legalizing medicine: early modern legal systems and the growth of medico-legal knowledge

5. Infanticide trials and forensic medicine: Württemberg, 1757-93

6. Training medical policemen: forensic medicine and public health in nineteenth-century Scotland

3. Special offenders: 7. 'I answer as a physician': opinion as fact in pre-McNaughtan insanity trials

8. Understanding the terrorist: anarchism, medicine and politics in fin-de-siècle France

9. Malingerers, the 'weakminded' criminal and the 'moral imbecile': how the English prison medical officer became an expert in mental deficiency, 1880-1930

4. The politics of post-mortems: 10. The magistrate of the poor? coroners and deaths in custody in nineteenth-century England

11. Coroners, corruption and the politics of death: forensic pathology in the United States

5. Medical authority in question: 12. Unbuilt Bloomsbury: medico-legal institutes and forensic science laboratories in England between the wars

13. Rex v. Bourne and the medicalization of abortion.

Includes index.

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