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Medicine and Justice
This monograph makes a major new contribution to the historiography of criminal justice in England and Wales by focusing on the intersection of the history of law and crime with medical history. It does this through the lens provided by one group of historical actors, medical professionals who gave evidence in criminal proceedings. They are the means of illuminating the developing methods and personnel associated with investigating and prosecuting crime in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when two linchpins of modern society, centralised policing and the adversarial criminal trial, emerged and matured. The book is devoted to two central questions: what did medical practitioners contr...
The Medical Jurisprudence of Inebriety
An excerpt from the Preface. In July, 1887, Clark Bell, Esq., contributed a paper to the International and Colonial Congress of Inebriety at London entitled, "the Relation of Intemperance to Insanity," which was read before the Medico-Legal Society, in September, 1887, and the November and December Meetings of the Society in 1887 were devoted to original papers on this subject by distinguished members, the discussion of which, are made the basis of the present volume. It was decided to select from among these various articles, thus contributed, enough to make a volume of at least 200 pages, so that Students of the Science might have in hand, the more important of these papers by members of t...
