Forensic medicine in Western society [electronic resource] : a history / Katherine D. Watson.
Watson, Katherine (Katherine Denise)
2011
RA1022.W47 W38 2011eb
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Title Forensic medicine in Western society [electronic resource] : a history / Katherine D. Watson.
Author Watson, Katherine (Katherine Denise)
ISBN 9780203840290 (electronic book)
0203840291 (electronic book)
9780415447713
9780415447720
Imprint Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (214 p.)
Call Number RA1022.W47 W38 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 614/.1
Summary The first book of its kind, Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History provides an overview of the history of forensic medicine in the West from the medieval period to the present day. Taking an international, comparative perspective it shows how medicine has played an active part in shaping legal, political and social change.
Note "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
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Available in Other Form Forensic medicine in Western society.
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The legal inheritance
Medico-legal practice before the modern period
Experts and expertise
Criminal responsibility and the insanity defence
The medicalization of deviance
Twentieth-century developments in forensic medicine and science.

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