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Medicine and Justice - Medico-Legal Practice in England and Wales, 1700-1914 (Hardcover)
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Medicine and Justice - Medico-Legal Practice in England and Wales, 1700-1914 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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This monograph makes a major new contribution to the historiography
of criminal justice in England and Wales by focusing on the
intersection of the history of law and crime with medical history.
It does this through the lens provided by one group of historical
actors, medical professionals who gave evidence in criminal
proceedings. They are the means of illuminating the developing
methods and personnel associated with investigating and prosecuting
crime in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when two
linchpins of modern society, centralised policing and the
adversarial criminal trial, emerged and matured. The book is
devoted to two central questions: what did medical practitioners
contribute to the investigation of serious violent crime in the
period 1700 to 1914, and what impact did this have on the process
of criminal justice? Drawing on the details of 2,600 cases of
infanticide, murder and rape which occurred in central England,
Wales and London, the book offers a comparative long-term
perspective on medico-legal practice - that is, what doctors
actually did when they were faced with a body that had become the
object of a criminal investigation. It argues that medico-legal
work developed in tandem with and was shaped by the needs of two
evolving processes: pre-trial investigative procedures dominated
successively by coroners, magistrates and the police; and criminal
trials in which lawyers moved from the periphery to the centre of
courtroom proceedings. In bringing together for the first time four
groups of specialists - doctors, coroners, lawyers and police
officers - this study offers a new interpretation of the processes
that shaped the modern criminal justice system.
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