Stories about science in law
Subtitle: literary and historical images of acquired expertise
By: David S. Caudill
Series: Law, language and communication
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781409426806; 9781409426813
Subjects: Literature and science; Science and law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-154) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Law-and-literature, literature-and-science, and a hybrid law-literature-science field of study; title: Ramón y Cajal : hard sf for trial lawyers; title: Ibsen's an enemy of the people : the public understanding of science in law; title: Idealizing science in film : the expert witness in trial movies; title: Faction : Truman Capote, legal ethics and "In Cold Blood"; title: Historical narratives : mad alchemists, experts attacking experts, and the crisis in forensic science; title: Conclusion : a new picture of science in law.