Bolshevik Sexual Forensics

by Dan Healey

Book Overview

In an effort to modernize criminal and civil investigations, early Bolsheviks gave forensic doctors--most of whom had been trained under the tsarist regime--new authority over issues of sexuality. Revolutionaries believed that forensic medicine could provide scientific and objective solutions to sexual disorder in the new society. Bolshevik Sexual Forensics explores the institutional history of Russian and Soviet forensic medicine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875804055
• ISBN13: 9780875804057
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher