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Medicine and Justice - Medico-Legal Practice in England and Wales, 1700-1914 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,293
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Medicine and Justice - Medico-Legal Practice in England and Wales, 1700-1914 (Hardcover): Katherine Watson

Medicine and Justice - Medico-Legal Practice in England and Wales, 1700-1914 (Hardcover)

Katherine Watson

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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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Release date: December 2019
Authors: Katherine Watson
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 978-1-4724-5412-6
Categories: Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history
Books > Medicine > General issues > Medicolegal issues
Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > General
Books > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
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LSN: 1-4724-5412-X
Barcode: 9781472454126

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