Medical Jurisprudence 3 Volume Set
Medical Jurisprudence 3 Volume Set
J. S. M. Fonblanque
$172.00
USDThe physician and author John Ayrton Paris (1785–1856), several of whose other medical and popular works have been reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection, and his co-author J. S. M. Fonblanque (1787–1865), barrister and administrator, published this three-volume work in 1823. It remained almost the only work on the topic of medical jurisprudence for many years. The authors define the term as 'a science by which medicine, and its collateral branches, are made subservient to the construction, elucidation, and administration of the laws; and to the preservation of public health'. An overview of the professional medical colleges and their powers and privileges is followed by a detailed examination of the various circumstances in which medical evidence may be required in court, a 'synopsis of the objects of inquiry in cases of sudden death', an appendix presenting many historical cases, and an index.
Product details
July 2014Multiple copy pack
9781108069762
1540 pages
216 × 140 mm
1.94kg
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Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Introduction
- Part I:
- 1. Of the College of Physicians
- 2. Of the College of Surgeons
- 3. Of the Society of Apothecaries
- 4. Of the exemptions and liabilities of medical practitioners
- 5. Of actions by medical practitioners
- 6. Of actions against medical practitioners
- 7. Midwifery
- 8. Of the preservation of public health
- 9. Of quarantine
- 10. Medical police
- Bills of mortality
- Part II: Introduction
- 1. Of medical evidence generally
- 2. Of marriage
- 3. Of divorce or nullity
- 4. Of extra-uterine conception
- 5. Of hermaphrodites
- 6. Of idiots and lunatics
- 7. Medical and physiological illustrations of insanity
- 8. Of nuisances
- 9. Of impositions
- 10. Of the adulteration of food
- 11. Policy of insurance on lives
- 12. Survivorship
- Part III:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Arson
- 3. Human combustion
- 4. Rape
- 5. Of homicide generally
- 6. Of real and apparent death
- 7. Of the physiological causes and phenomena of sudden death
- 8. Of murder generally
- 9. On the classification of poisons
- 10. Homicide
- Appendix. Volume 2: Part III (cont.): Of homicide. Volume 3: Part III (cont.): A synopsis of the objects of inquiry
- Postscript
- Index of cases
- Index
- Appendices 1-3.
