Forensic medicine in Western society [electronic resource] : a history / Katherine D. Watson.
Material type: TextPublication details: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2011Description: 214 pISBN: 9780203840290 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Medical jurisprudence -- Western countries -- History | Forensic sciences -- Western countries -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 614/.1 LOC classification: RA1022.W47 | W38 2011Online resources: Click to View"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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