Lawyers' medicine : the legislature, the courts, and medical practice, 1760-2000 /
This book investigates how the requirements, limitations and intellectual structure of the British legal process have shaped medicine and medical practice. The story of this inter-relationship is greatly under-researched, which is particularly concerning given that the legal system remains a signifi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Oxford ; Portland, Or. :
Hart Pub.,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This book investigates how the requirements, limitations and intellectual structure of the British legal process have shaped medicine and medical practice. The story of this inter-relationship is greatly under-researched, which is particularly concerning given that the legal system remains a significant and pervasive influence on medicine and its practice to this day. The question which unifies the series of historical studies presented here is whether legal consideration of medical practice and concepts has played a part in the construction of medical concepts and affected developments in med. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 224 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781847315342 1847315348 9781474200653 1474200656 |