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Medical Jurisprudence for India by Isidore Bernadotte Lyon is a seminal work on medical jurisprudence in the Indian context. It is an exhaustive volume that includes a large number of case references that provide the necessary interpretation of various rules and regulations regarding medicine and law in the country. Spread over many chapters and a long list of illustrations and appendix, Medical Jurisprudence for India will take the reader through the minutest of details in relation to the subject. It opens with a very informative introduction that summarizes key concepts and definitions which appear regularly in the book. Lyon skilfully illustrates the interdependence of medicine and law by...
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
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A study of the internal tensions of British imperial rule told through murder and insanity trials Unsound Empire is a history of criminal responsibility in the nineteenth-century British Empire told through detailed accounts of homicide cases across three continents. If a defendant in a murder trial was going to hang, he or she had to deserve it. Establishing the mental element of guilt--criminal responsibility--transformed state violence into law. And yet, to the consternation of officials in Britain and beyond, experts in new scientific fields posited that insanity was widespread and growing, and evolutionary theories suggested that wide swaths of humanity lacked the self-control and understanding that common law demanded. Could it be fair to punish mentally ill or allegedly "uncivilized" people? Could British civilization survive if killers avoided the noose?
Volume 2 of 2. An excellent research tool which lists 6586 former IMS personnel, giving details of their services, honours and awards, campaign medal entitlements, etc. This very large book also contains interesting information concerning Indian Medical Colleges and places of instruction. A primary source, by the same author who wrote the preceding entry, containing a huge amount of biographical detail which could be obtained from other sources only with great difficulty.