Medical Law & Legislation, Forensic Medicine, History, Law, Comparative Study 

Cambridge history of medicine 

"A collection of essays on the social history of legal medicine including case studies on infanticide, abortion, coroners' inquests and criminal insanity." - Voila 

Content:
Forensic medicine in early colonial Maryland, 1633-83 / Helen Brock and Catherine Crawford--The scope of legal medicine in Lancashire and Cheshire, 1660-1760 / David Harley--Suspicious infant deaths: the statute of 1624 and medical evidence at coroners' inquests / Mark Jackson--Legalizing medicine: early modern legal systems and the growth of medico-legal knowledge / Catherine Crawford--Infanticide trials and forensic medicine: Wurttemberg, 1757-93 / Mary Nagel Wessling--Training medical policemen: forensic medicine and public health in nineteenth-century Scotland / Brenda White.

(cont.) "I answer as a physician": opinion as fact in pre-McNaughtan insanity trials / Joel Peter Eigen--Understanding the terrorist: anarchism, medicine and politics in fin-de-siecle France / Ruth Harris--Malingerers, the "weak-minded" criminal and the "moral imbecile": how the English prison medical officer became an expert in mental deficiency, 1880-1930 / Stephen Watson--The magistrate of the poor? Coroners and deaths in custody in nineteenth-century England / Joe Sim and Tony Ward--Coroners, corruption and the politics of death: forensic pathology in the United States / Julie Johnson--Unbuilt Bloomsbury: medico-legal institutes and forensic science laboratories in England between the wars / Norman Ambage and Michael Clark--Rex v. Bourne and the medicalization of abortion / Barbara Brookes and Paul Roth. 

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Item catalogued by editor (Clark, Michael).