Bodies of Evidence: Medicine and the Politics of the English Inquest, 1830-1926 by Ian Burney
Bodies of Evidence: Medicine and the Politics of the English Inquest, 1830-1926

Ian Burney

Bodies of Evidence: Medicine and the Politics of the English Inquest, 1830-1926

Ian Burney

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In Bodies of Evidence, Ian Burney offers an important reinterpretation of the role of the scientific expert in the modern democratic state. At the core of this study lies the coroner's inquest--the ancient tribunal in English law held to account f...

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