title: Jurists versus doctors: the birth of legal medicine in the United States.
abstract: This paper considers some of the problems that attended the birth of legal medicine in the USA. The historical study of relations between American medicine and jurisprudence and ethics should identify some of the philosophical assumptions that inspire their views of anomalous behaviour.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Estudios Históricos, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Peset
mesh_terms: D004992:Ethics, Medical / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D007603:Jurisprudence / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States