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Medicine, law, and the state in imperial Russia / Elisa M. Becker.
LIBRA RA1022.R9 B3 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Becker, Elisa Marielle.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical jurisprudence--Russia--History.
- Medical jurisprudence.
- Forensic psychiatry--Russia--History.
- Forensic psychiatry.
- Expertise--Political aspects--Russia--History.
- Expertise.
- Physicians--Russia--History.
- Physicians.
- Health reformers--Russia--History.
- Health reformers.
- Law reform--Russia--History.
- Law reform.
- Medical policy--Russia--History.
- Medical policy.
- Social policy.
- History.
- Expertise--Political aspects.
- Russia--Social policy.
- Russia.
- Russia--Politics and government--1689-1801.
- Politics and government.
- Russia--Politics and government--1801-1917.
- Physical Description:
- x, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- This interesting volume on the medical profession and the state in nineteenth-century Russia examines the role of an emerging professional class and its relationship to the legal system, through forensic medicine and mental health evaluation. The volume discusses the way in which doctors were able to influence the judiciary, firmly in the control of the imperial government, and to further reforms in a modernizing, yet still deeply autocratic, society. Becker is a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. Distributed by Books International. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Procedural immunity : medical knowledge in the age of legal certainty
- On the cusp of reform : making the expert scientific
- Legal mechanics : carving out a new identity
- Criminal procedure in social context
- Reform and the role of medical expertise.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789639776814
- 9639776815
- OCLC:
- 610870776
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