Lawyers' medicine : the legislature, the courts and medical practice, 1760-2000 / edited by Imogen Goold and Catherine Kelly.

Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2009.

xi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction : lawyer's medicine: the interaction of the medical profession and the law, 1760-2000 / Catherine Kelly and Imogen Goold -- Parliamentary inquiries and the construction of medical argument in the early 19th century, 1793-1825 / Catherine Kelly -- Bye laws, the environment, and health before Chadwick, 1835-1840 / James Hanley -- Is a burn a wound? : vitriol-throwing in medico-legal context, 1800-1900 / Katherine D. Watson -- Not their fathers' sons : the changing trajectory in psychiatric testimony, 1760-1900 / Joel Peter Eigen -- Speaking out about staying silent : an historical examination of medico-legal debates over the boundaries of medical confidentiality / Angus H. Ferguson -- Law, medicine and the treatment of homosexual offenders in Scotland, 1950-1980 / Roger Davidson -- The medical community and abortion law reform : Scotland in national context, c.1960-1980 / Gayle Davis -- Regulating reproduction in the United Kingdom : doctors' voices, 1978-1985 / Imogen Goold -- Nobody's thing? : human tissue in science, ethics and the law during the late 20th century / Duncan Wilson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.