Doctors and the law: medical jurisprudence in nineteenth-century America
After the American Revolution, the new republic's most prominent physicians envisioned a society in which doctors, lawyers, and the state would work together to ensure public well-being and a high standard of justice. By the 1830s, medical jurisprudence was being taught as an important subject...
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| Zusammenfassung: | After the American Revolution, the new republic's most prominent physicians envisioned a society in which doctors, lawyers, and the state would work together to ensure public well-being and a high standard of justice. By the 1830s, medical jurisprudence was being taught as an important subject in the nation's best medical schools, new medical ideas about insanity inspired major legal reforms, and legal issues stimulated medical advances. Medical malpractice suits were so rare as to be curiosities. But as James C. Mohr reveals in Doctors and the Law, by mid-century what had once appeared to be fertile ground for cooperative civic service had become a battlefield, and the relationship between doctors and the legal system became increasingly adversarial Mohr provides a graceful and lucid narrative of this startling transition from civic republicanism to marketplace professionalism. He shows how, by 1900, everything had changed for the worse: doctors and lawyers were at each other's throats; medical jurisprudence had disappeared as a serious field of study for American physicians; the subject of insanity had become a legal nightmare; expert medical witnesses had become costly and often counterproductive; and an ever-increasing number of malpractice suits had intensified physicians' aversion to the courts. In short, the system we have taken largely for granted throughout the twentieth century was essentially in place, the product of a great nineteenth-century transition Mohr uses a series of trials that captured the attention of the American people to illustrate key trends. In the Hendrickson trial of the 1850s, for example, what began as a trial to determine whether or not John Hendrickson had poisoned his wife Maria became a sensationalized debate - complete with a multitude of expert medical witnesses - challenging Dr. James Salisbury's ability to isolate the specific chemical used to poison Mrs. Hendrickson. And Mohr goes on to explore a variety of subjects: medical education, forensic toxicology, insanity, medical malpractice, the place of physicians in establishing American social policy, and the role of the AMA in medico-legal matters |
| Beschreibung: | XV, 319 S. Ill. |
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JAMES C. MOHR NEW YORK OXFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1993 CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION XIII ONE MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE IN THE NEW REPUBLIC 3 TWO T.
R. BECK AND THE ELEMENTS OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE 15 THREE MEDICAL
JURISPRUDENCE AS A BURGEONING FIELD IN EARLY AMERICAN MEDICAL SCHOOLS 29
FOUR MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE AND AMERICAN MEDICINE, 1820-1850 42 FIVE
MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE AND AMERICAN SOCIETY, 1820-1850 57 SIX MEDICAL
JURISPRUDENCE AND THE STATE, 1820-1850 76 V SEVEN MEDICAL TESTIMONY IN
COURT TO 1860 94 EIGHT THE EMERGENCE OF MEDICAL MALPRACTICE 109 NINE
TOXICOLOGY ON TRIAL: THE HENDRICKSON CASE 122 TEN THE IMPLICATIONS OF
INSANITY: FROM A PROFESSIONAL ASSET TO A PUBLIC EMBARRASSMENT 140 ELEVEN
MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE AND THE CIVIL WAR 154 TWELVE THE INSANITY ISSUE
AFTER THE CIVIL WAR 164 XII CONTENTS THIRTEEN THE SCHOEPPE TRIALS AND
THE WHARTON CASE 180 FOURTEEN THE CRISIS OF THE EXPERT WITNESS 197
FIFTEEN MEDICAL EXAMINERS AND MEDICO-LEGAL SOCIETIES 213 SIXTEEN MEDICAL
JURISPRUDENCE AND THE AMA 225 SEVENTEEN MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE AS A DYING
FIELD IN AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS 237 AFTERWORD 251 ABBREVIATIONS
USED IN NOTES 258 NOTES 259 INDEX 315
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