Medical Jurisprudence by John Ayrton Paris, J. S. M. Fonblanque - 9781108070133

Medical JurisprudenceAuthor(s): John Ayrton Paris, J. S. M. Fonblanque\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108070133, 978-1108070133\nSynopsis\nThe physician and author John Ayrton Paris [tel], several of whose other medical and popular works have been reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection, and his co-author J. S. M. Fonblanque [tel], barrister and administrator, published this three-volume work in 1823. It remained almost the only work on the topic of medical jurisprudence for many years. The authors define the term as 'a science by which medicine, and its collateral branches, are made subservient to the construction, elucidation, and administration of the laws; and to the preservation of public health'. Volume 3 continues the discussion of homicide, dealing with abortion and infanticide, rules for dissection, and issues of criminal responsibility, such as pleas of insanity. This is follo.