Legal Medicine in History

This collection of essays presents fresh interpretations of the growth of medico-legal ideas, institutions and practices in Britain, Europe and America over the past four hundred years. Based on a wealth of new research, it brings the historical study of legal medicine firmly into the realm of social history. Case studies of infanticide, abortion, coroners' inquests and criminal insanity show that legal medicine has often been the focus of social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521395143
• ISBN13: 9780521395144
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"