Forensic medicine in Western society : a history / Katherine D. Watson.

  • Watson, Katherine (Katherine Denise)
Date:
2010
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Milton Park, Abingdon : Routledge, 2010.

Physical description

214 pages ; 24 cm

Contributors

Notes

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p verso.

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
    KH /WAT
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ISBN

  • 9780415447713
  • 0415447712
  • 9780415447720
  • 0415447720
  • 9780203840290
  • 0203840291