Medicolegal History: A Review of Significant Publications and Educational Developments

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Nemec J. , International Bibliography of Medicolegal Serials: 1736–1967 (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C.) (1969) at 1.

Id. at 4-8.

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Curran W.J. , Titles in the Medicolegal Field: A Proposal for Reform, American Journal of Law & Medicine 1(1):1 (March 1975) at 5, quoting Rush B. , Sixteen Introductory Lectures (Bradford and Innskeep, Philadelphia) (1811) at 363.

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Dean A. , Principles of Medical Jurisprudence: Designed for the Professions of Law & Medicine (1850) cited in Shastid , supra note 5, at lxxix.

Wharton F. Stillé M. , A Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence (Kay, Philadelphia) (1855) cited in Nemec , supra note 9, at 87.

Hamilton F.H. , Deformities after Fractures (Collins, Philadelphia) (1855) cited in Nemec , supra note 9, at 87.

Nemec , supra note 9, at 86.

Elwell J.J. , A Medico-legal Treatise on Malpractice and Medical Evidence: Comprising the Elements of Medical Jurisprudence (Baker, Voorhis, New York) (1860) cited in Nemec , supra note 9, at 88.

Burns C.R. , Malpractice Suits in American Medicine Before the Civil War. in Legacies in Law and Medicine (Science History Pubs., New York) (1977) at 120.

Nemec , supra note 9, at 90; Shastid , supra note 5, at lxxx.

Ordronaux J. , Jurisprudence of Medicine (1869) and Judicial Aspects of Insanity (1878) cited in Cyclopedia supra note 5, vol. 2 at 227.

Nemec , supra note 9, at 96-97.

Nemec , supra note 2, at 8-9.

Curran W.J. , Letter, Background of Forensic Medicine, Medical World News 12(15): 12 (April 16, 1971).

Shastid , supra note 5, at lxxxii-iii.

Davis N.S. , History of Medical Education and Institutions in the United States (S.C. Griggs, Chicago) (1851) at 178.

Curran , supra note 20.

Rothstein W. , American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore) (1972) at 238.

Martland H.S. , The Teaching of Forensic Medicine, New York State Journal of Medicine 36(17): 1193 (1936).

Shastid , supra note 5, at lxxxiii-iv.

Nemec , supra note 9, at 99.

Martland , supra note 25, at 1193.

Nemec supra note 2, at 11.

Gradwohl R.B. , The Origin of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Journal of Forensic Sciences 1(4): 7–9 (1956).

Report of Committee on Medicolegal Problems, A Suggested Course in Legal Medicine for Medical Schools, Journal of the American Medical Association 150(7): 716 (October 18, 1952).

Fisher R.S. , Teaching Medical Law, Journal of the American Medical Association 205(12): 245 (September 16, 1968) at 245.

Nemec , supra note 9, at 107.

Id. at 112.

Id.

Burns C.R. , Professional Ethics and the Development of American Law as Applied to Medicine. in Legacies in Law and Medicine, supra note 15, at 299-310.

Ficarra B.J. , A History of Legal Medicine, Legal Medicine Annual (Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York) ( Wecht C. , ed. 1976) at 21.

Nemec , supra note 2.

Curran , supra note 6, at 10-11.

Ficarra , supra note 37, at 24 For a more detailed analysis, see Curran W.J. Shapiro E.D. , Law, Medicine and Forensic Science (Little, Brown & Co., Boston) (2nd ed. 1970) at chap. 1.

Grumet B. , Legal Medicine in Medical Schools: A Survey of the State of the Art, Journal of Medical Education 54:755 (1979) cited in Schwartz R.L. , Teaching Physicians and Lawyers to Understand Each Other, Journal of Legal Medicine 2(2): 131 (June 1981) at 138-39.

See, e.g., Curran W.J. Shapiro E.D. , Law, Medicine and Forensic Science (Little Brown, Boston) (3rd ed. 1982); Sharpe Fiscina Head , Cases and Materials on Law and Medicine (1979); and Wadlington Waltz Dworkin , Cases and Materials on Law and Medicine (1980). Schwartz R.L. , Teaching Physicians and Lawyers to Understand Each Other, supra note 41.

Norton M.L. , Development of Interdisciplinary Program of Instruction in Medicine and Law, Journal of Medical Education 46(5): 405, 408 (May 1971).

“Legal Medicine: the specialty areas of medicine concerned with relations with substantive law and with legal institutions. Clinical medical areas—such as the treatment of offenders and trauma medicine related to law would be included herein.” Curran, supra note 6, at 11.