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Death investigation in America : coroners, medical examiners, and the pursuit of medical certainty / Jeffrey M. Jentzen.
LIBRA RA1063 .J46 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jentzen, Jeffrey M., 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical examiners (Law)--United States--History.
- Medical examiners (Law).
- Coroners--United States--History.
- Coroners.
- Death--United States--Causes--History.
- Death.
- Forensic Medicine--history.
- History.
- United States.
- Cause of Death.
- Coroners and Medical Examiners--history.
- Forensic Medicine--legislation & jurisprudence.
- History, 20th Century.
- Medical Subjects:
- Forensic Medicine--history.
- United States.
- Cause of Death.
- Coroners and Medical Examiners--history.
- Forensic Medicine--legislation & jurisprudence.
- History, 20th Century.
- Physical Description:
- 290 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Good and lawful men
- Rockefeller philanthropy and the Harvard dream
- A model law
- Creating an identity
- In search of authority
- Autonomy challenged
- Beyond vital statistics
- The road to demedicalization
- The popularization of forensic pathology
- In search of reasonable medical certainty.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674034532
- 0674034538
- OCLC:
- 301879964
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