The history of legal medicine in Britain and Europe.

UK : Furness College, University of Lancaster, 9-11 April, 1987.

9 sound cassettes

Programme: Medico-Legal Institutes and Forensic Science Laboratories in England and Wales between the Wars / Norman Ambage and Dr Michael Clark (Dept. of History, University of Lancaster)--Judges, Doctors and Churchmen; Lunacy Legislation in the Netherlands in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Dr Hans Binneveld (Erasmus University, Rotterdam)--The Effect of Legislation on Suicide by Poisening in England and Wales, 1850-1933 / Michael J Clarke (Exeter College, Univ. of Oxford)--Forensic Toxicology in the Work of Alfred Swaine Taylor (1806-1880) / Dr Noel G, Coley--Law and Medicine as Systems of Social Regulation - Some Interrelationships and Developments / Dr Robert Dingwall (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Univ. of Oxford)--Dr Susan M. Edwards (London School of Economics)--A Case of Child Murder: Carlino Grandi, Tuscany, 1876 / Dr Patrizia Guarnieri (European University, Badia Fiesolana, Florence)--Dr Ruth Harris (New College, Univ. of Oxford)--Dr John Keown (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Univ. of Oxford)--Prof. Michael MacDonald (Dept. of History, Univ. of Winsconsin)--Occupational Illness to be Compensated for Workers' Diseases to be Eradicated? Workmen's Compensation Legislation and Practice in Late-Imperial and Weimer Germany / Dr Deitrich Milles (Univ. of Bremen) [paper read by Dr Paul Weindling (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Univ. of Oxford)]--Death, Disease and Vocabularies of Causation / Dr Lindsay Prior (New Univ. of Ulster, Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Ireland)--The Law and Insanity in Great Britain and Europe / Dr Roger Smith (Dept. of History, Univ. of Lancaster)--The Prison Medical Officer, the Recurrant Offender and the Moral Imbecile / Stephen Watson (Dept. of History, Univ. of Lancaster)--Medical Evidence in Civil and Criminal Cases in 18th century London (?) / Dr Cathy Crawford (Univ. of Essex)--The development of the insanity defence in English law in early 19th century criminal trials / Prof. Joel Eigen (Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania)--Training Medical Policemen in nineteenth century Scotland / Dr Brenda White and Dr Anne Crowther (Dept. of History, Univ. of Glasgow)

Norman Ambage; Dr Michael Clark; Dr Hans Binneveld; Michael J. Clark; Dr Noel G. Coley; Dr Robert Dingwall; Dr Susan M. Edwards; Dr Patrizia Guarnieri; Dr Ruth Harris; Dr John Keown; Prof. Michael MacDonald; Dr Paul Weindling; Dr Lindsay Prior; Dr Roger Smith; Stephen Watson; Dr Cathy Crawford; Prof. Joel Eigen; Dr Brenda White; Dr Anne Crowther; Dorothy Watkins.