Forensic medicine in Western society
Subtitle: a history
By: Katherine D. Watson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780415447713; 9780415447720; 9780203840290
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The legal inheritance; title: Medico-legal practice before the modern period; title: Experts and expertise; title: Criminal responsibility and the insanity defence; title: The medicalization of deviance; title: Twentieth-century developments in forensic medicine and science.