Forensic medicine in Western society [electronic resource] : a history / Katherine D. Watson.
2011
RA1022.W47 W38 2011eb
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Title
Forensic medicine in Western society [electronic resource] : a history / Katherine D. Watson.
ISBN
9780203840290 (electronic book)
0203840291 (electronic book)
9780415447713
9780415447720
0203840291 (electronic book)
9780415447713
9780415447720
Publication Details
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (214 p.)
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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.
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"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.