Watson, Katherine

Forensic medicine in Western society a history / [electronic resource] : Katherine D. Watson. - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2011. - 214 p.

"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.

9780203840290 (electronic bk.)




Medical jurisprudence--History.--Western countries
Forensic sciences--History.--Western countries


Electronic books.

RA1022.W47 / W38 2011

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