Lawyers' medicine
Subtitle: the legislature, the courts, and medical practice, 1760-2000
By: edited by Imogen Goold and Catherine Kelly.
Contributors: Goold, Imogen.; Kelly, Catherine.
Publisher: Hart Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781841138497
Subjects: Medical laws and legislation -- Great Britain -- History
Other titles: Legislature, the courts, and medical practice, 1760-2000
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : lawyer's medicine: the interaction of the medical profession and the law, 1760-2000 / Catherine Kelly and Imogen Goold; title: Parliamentary inquiries and the construction of medical argument in the early 19th century, 1793-1825 / Catherine Kelly; title: Bye laws, the environment, and health before Chadwick, 1835-1840 / James Hanley; title: Is a burn a wound? : vitriol-throwing in medico-legal context, 1800-1900 / Katherine D. Watson; title: Not their fathers' sons : the changing trajectory in psychiatric testimony, 1760-1900 / Joel Peter Eigen; title: Speaking out about staying silent : an historical examination of medico-legal debates over the boundaries of medical confidentiality / Angus H. Ferguson; title: Law, medicine and the treatment of homosexual offenders in Scotland, 1950-1980 / Roger Davidson; title: The medical community and abortion law reform : Scotland in national context, c.1960-1980 / Gayle Davis; title: Regulating reproduction in the United Kingdom : doctors' voices, 1978-1985 / Imogen Goold; title: Nobody's thing? : human tissue in science, ethics and the law during the late 20th century / Duncan Wilson.