Doctors and the law : medical jurisprudence in nineteenth-century America / James C. Mohr.
1993
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Author
Title
Doctors and the law : medical jurisprudence in nineteenth-century America / James C. Mohr.
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Call Number
RA1022.U6 M64 1993
ISBN
0195053842 (alk. paper) :
Description
xv, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)25676062
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-314) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1
Medical Jurisprudence in the New Republic
3
2
T. R. Beck and the Elements of Medical Jurisprudence
15
3
Medical Jurisprudence as a Burgeoning Field in Early American Medical Schools
29
4
Medical Jurisprudence and American Medicine, 1820-1850
42
5
Medical Jurisprudence and American Society, 1820-1850
57
6
Medical Jurisprudence and the State, 1820-1850
76
7
Medical Testimony in Court to 1860
94
8
The Emergence of Medical Malpractice
109
9
Toxicology on Trial: The Hendrickson Case
122
10
The Implications of Insanity: From a Professional Asset to a Public Embarrassment
140
11
Medical Jurisprudence and the Civil War
154
12
The Insanity Issue after the Civil War
164
13
The Schoeppe Trials and the Wharton Case
180
14
The Crisis of the Expert Witness
197
15
Medical Examiners and Medico-Legal Societies
213
16
Medical Jurisprudence and the AMA
225
17
Medical Jurisprudence as a Dying Field in American Professional Schools
237
Afterword
251
Abbreviations Used in Notes
258
Notes
259
Index
315