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

By Ian Burney
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By Ian Burney
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A wide-ranging examination of the historical process of negotiating expert authority in the public realm.

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 for cases of unexplained death. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, representatives of "progressive" medical science waged a det...

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