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This number of essays offers clean interpretations of the expansion of medico-legal principles, associations and practices in Britain, Europe and the USA over the last 400 years. in accordance with a wealth of latest examine, it brings the old examine of criminal medication firmly into the area of social heritage. Case reports of infanticide, abortion, coroners' inquests, and legal madness exhibit that criminal medication has frequently been the focal point of social swap and political controversy. The participants additionally emphasize the formative impact of felony structures on medico-legal wisdom and perform. felony drugs in heritage enlarges our figuring out of the general public function of drugs in glossy Western societies, whereas beginning up new views on social, cultural, and political background.
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Anne Crowther and Brenda White, On Soul and Conscience: The Medical Expert and Crime. 150 Years of Forensic Medicine in Glasgow (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988). 26 Sydney Smith, 'History and development of forensic medicine', pp. 604-5; F. N. L. Poynter, 'Medical education in England since 1600', in C. D. , The History of Medical Education (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1970), pp. 235^9, at pp. 244-6. 27 A. V. Sheehan, Criminal Procedure in Scotland and France (Edinburgh: HMSO, 1975), pp.
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The bleeding of the corpse may nevertheless have been seen as additional evidence that the death was Carpenter's doing. He was convicted of manslaughter, but pleading benefit of clergy, he suffered only branding on the hand. 35 The conclusions of Maryland surgeons who performed medico-legal autopsies sometimes reflect the belief that death could be caused only if the vital organs were involved. This notion was clearly articulated and explained at the trial of John Grammer for the death of his servant, Thomas Simmons.