| Description |
1 online resource (392 pages) |
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Medieval Law and Its Practice |
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Medieval law and its practice.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; About the Authors; Abbreviations; Medicine and Law: The Confluence of Art and Science in the Middle Ages; Medical Matters in Law and Administration of Law; Chapter 1. Compensating Body and Honor: The Old Frisian Compensation Tariffs; Chapter 2. Midwives in the Middle Ages? Birth Attendants, 600-1300; Chapter 3. Learned Men and Skilful Matrons: Medical Expertise and the Forensics of Rape in the Middle Ages; Chapter 4. Expert Examination of Wounds in the Criminal Court of Justice in Cocentaina (Kingdom of Valencia) during the Late Middle Ages |
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Chapter 5. Forensic Evidence, Lay Witnesses and Medical Expertise in the Criminal Courts of Late Medieval Italy; Chapter 6. Mental Health as a Foundation for Suit or an Excuse for Theft in Medieval English Legal Disputes; Professionalization and Regulation of Medicine; Chapter 7. Making Right Practice? Regulating Surgery and Medicine in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Bologna; Chapter 8. Medical Licensing in Late Medieval Portugal; Chapter 9. Dreaming of Valencia's Social Order in Jaume Roig's Espill; Chapter 10. Portrait of a Surgeon in Fifteenth-Century England |
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Medicine and the Law in Hagiography; Chapter 11. An Infirm Man: Reading Francis of Assisi's Retirement in the Context of Canon Law; Chapter 12. Medicine and Miracle: Law Enforcement in the Lives of Irish Saints; Concluding Remarks; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
The scholarly collection of Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages examines connections between doctors, lawyers, laws, regulations, professionalization, administration, literature, hagiography and health from an international perspective |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Medical jurisprudence -- History
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Medical laws and legislation.
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Medicine, Medieval -- History
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Forensic sciences.
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History.
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Social control.
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Criminology.
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Medical care.
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Humanities.
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Medical personnel.
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Social sciences.
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Medicine, Medieval.
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Medical jurisprudence.
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Legislation as Topic
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Forensic Sciences
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History
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Occupational Groups
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Medicine
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Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services
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Social Control, Formal
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Criminology
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Delivery of Health Care
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Persons
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Humanities
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Health Occupations
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Social Sciences
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Named Groups
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Health Care Economics and Organizations
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Disciplines and Occupations
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Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
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History, Medieval
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Forensic Medicine
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Health Personnel
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Legislation, Medical
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Patient Care
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forensic science.
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history (discipline)
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criminology.
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humanities.
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social sciences.
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forensic medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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Social sciences
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Social control
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Medical personnel
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Medical care
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Humanities
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History
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Forensic sciences
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Criminology
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Medical jurisprudence
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Medical laws and legislation
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Medicine, Medieval
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Turner, Wendy J. (Wendy Jo), 1961- editor.
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Butler, Sara M. (Sara Margaret), editor.
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| ISBN |
9789004269118 |
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9004269118 |
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