From Wounded Fairies to Sweet Fanny Adams: Helping Police with Their Enquiries Through the Centuries

by Peter Moore

Book Overview

The medical profession and criminal law have worked together over the millennia, from the Ancient Egyptians to the present day. Doctors have been asked to interpret wounds since antiquity. In From Wounded Fairies to Sweet Fanny Adams Dr. Peter Moore looks at how doctors got involved in crime, examining the accused or checking injuries, dating from the Edwin Smith papyrus, written in ancient Egypt in about 1600 BC which lists 48 cases involving...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911273973
• ISBN13: 9781911273974
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Mango Books
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher