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• catalog abstract "After the American Revolution, the new republic's most prominent physicians envisioned a society in which doctors, lawyers, and the state would work together to ensure public well-being and a high standard of justice. By the 1830s, medical jurisprudence was being taught as an important subject in the nation's best medical schools, new medical ideas about insanity inspired major legal reforms, and legal issues stimulated medical advances. Medical malpractice suits were so rare as to be curiosities. But as James C. Mohr reveals in Doctors and the Law, by mid-century what had once appeared to be fertile ground for cooperative civic service had become a battlefield, and the relationship between doctors and the legal system became increasingly adversarial. Mohr provides a graceful and lucid narrative of this startling transition from civic republicanism to marketplace professionalism. He shows how, by 1900, everything had changed for the worse: doctors and lawyers were at each other's throats; medical jurisprudence had disappeared as a serious field of study for American physicians; the subject of insanity had become a legal nightmare; expert medical witnesses had become costly and often counterproductive; and an ever-increasing number of malpractice suits had intensified physicians' aversion to the courts. In short, the system we have taken largely for granted throughout the twentieth century was essentially in place, the product of a great nineteenth-century transition. Mohr uses a series of trials that captured the attention of the American people to illustrate key trends. In the Hendrickson trial of the 1850s, for example, what began as a trial to determine whether or not John Hendrickson had poisoned his wife Maria became a sensationalized debate - complete with a multitude of expert medical witnesses - challenging Dr. James Salisbury's ability to isolate the specific chemical used to poison Mrs. Hendrickson. And Mohr goes on to explore a variety of subjects: medical education, forensic toxicology, insanity, medical malpractice, the place of physicians in establishing American social policy, and the role of the AMA in medico-legal matters. For those who wonder about the relationship between the nation's physicians and its legal processes, here is a penetrating look at the origins of our inherited medico-legal system. Above all else, Mohr reminds us that our present system is not an inevitable product of universal forces but an outcome of specific historical circumstances in the United States and is likely to change.".
• catalog contributor b4051490.
• catalog coverage "United States".
• catalog created "1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
• catalog description "After the American Revolution, the new republic's most prominent physicians envisioned a society in which doctors, lawyers, and the state would work together to ensure public well-being and a high standard of justice. By the 1830s, medical jurisprudence was being taught as an important subject in the nation's best medical schools, new medical ideas about insanity inspired major legal reforms, and legal issues stimulated medical advances. Medical malpractice suits were so rare as to be curiosities. But as James C. Mohr reveals in Doctors and the Law, by mid-century what had once appeared to be fertile ground for cooperative civic service had become a battlefield, and the relationship between doctors and the legal system became increasingly adversarial.".
• catalog description "For those who wonder about the relationship between the nation's physicians and its legal processes, here is a penetrating look at the origins of our inherited medico-legal system. Above all else, Mohr reminds us that our present system is not an inevitable product of universal forces but an outcome of specific historical circumstances in the United States and is likely to change.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-314) and index.".
• catalog description "Medical jurisprudence in the new republic -- T.R. Beck and the Elements of Medical jurisprudence -- Medical jurisprudence as a burgeoning field in early American medical schools -- Medical jurisprudence and American medicine, 1820-1850 -- Medical jurisprudence and American society, 1820-1850 -- Medical jurisprudence and the State, 1820-1850 -- Medical testimony in court to 1860 -- The emergence of medical malpractice -- Toxicology on trial: the Hendrickson case -- The implications of insanity: from a professional asset to a public embarrassment -- Medical jurisprudence and the Civil War -- The insanity issue after the Civil War -- The Schoeppe trials and the Wharton case -- The crisis of the expert witness -- Medical examiners and medico-legal societies -- Medical jurisprudence and the AMA -- Medical jurisprudence as a dying field in American professional schools.".
• catalog description "Mohr provides a graceful and lucid narrative of this startling transition from civic republicanism to marketplace professionalism. He shows how, by 1900, everything had changed for the worse: doctors and lawyers were at each other's throats; medical jurisprudence had disappeared as a serious field of study for American physicians; the subject of insanity had become a legal nightmare; expert medical witnesses had become costly and often counterproductive; and an ever-increasing number of malpractice suits had intensified physicians' aversion to the courts. In short, the system we have taken largely for granted throughout the twentieth century was essentially in place, the product of a great nineteenth-century transition.".
• catalog description "Mohr uses a series of trials that captured the attention of the American people to illustrate key trends. In the Hendrickson trial of the 1850s, for example, what began as a trial to determine whether or not John Hendrickson had poisoned his wife Maria became a sensationalized debate - complete with a multitude of expert medical witnesses - challenging Dr. James Salisbury's ability to isolate the specific chemical used to poison Mrs. Hendrickson. And Mohr goes on to explore a variety of subjects: medical education, forensic toxicology, insanity, medical malpractice, the place of physicians in establishing American social policy, and the role of the AMA in medico-legal matters.".
• catalog extent "xv, 319 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Doctors and the law.".
• catalog identifier "0195053842 (alk. paper) :".
• catalog isFormatOf "Doctors and the law.".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
• catalog relation "Doctors and the law.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "614/.1/097309034 20".
• catalog subject "History, 19th Century United States.".
• catalog subject "History, 19th Century".
• catalog subject "Jurisprudence United States History.".
• catalog subject "Jurisprudence history".
• catalog subject "Medical jurisprudence United States History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "RA1022.U6 M64 1993".
• catalog subject "WZ 70 AA1 M6d".
• catalog tableOfContents "Medical jurisprudence in the new republic -- T.R. Beck and the Elements of Medical jurisprudence -- Medical jurisprudence as a burgeoning field in early American medical schools -- Medical jurisprudence and American medicine, 1820-1850 -- Medical jurisprudence and American society, 1820-1850 -- Medical jurisprudence and the State, 1820-1850 -- Medical testimony in court to 1860 -- The emergence of medical malpractice -- Toxicology on trial: the Hendrickson case -- The implications of insanity: from a professional asset to a public embarrassment -- Medical jurisprudence and the Civil War -- The insanity issue after the Civil War -- The Schoeppe trials and the Wharton case -- The crisis of the expert witness -- Medical examiners and medico-legal societies -- Medical jurisprudence and the AMA -- Medical jurisprudence as a dying field in American professional schools.".
• catalog title "Doctors and the law : medical jurisprudence in nineteenth-century America / James C. Mohr.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".