Doctors and The Law. Medical Jurisprudence in the Nineteenth-Century..
Mohr, James C. Doctors and The Law. Medical Jurisprudence in the Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xii ,319 pp. Publisher's red quarter cloth, near fine in near fine dust jacket. Illustrated. Internally clean. $15. * A historical and legal analysis tracing the profound mid-19th-century shift from civic cooperation to marketplace professionalism and adversarial conflict between the American medical and legal establishments. Mohr utilizes a series of highly publicized 19th-century trials-including landmark cases involving forensic toxicology, medical malpractice, and the insanity defense-to demonstrate how medical jurisprudence devolved from a central pillar of medical education into a battlefield of costly expert witnesses and professional distrust. This volume holds immense historical significance as the definitive foundational framework explaining the origins of the modern, fractured medico-legal system.
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