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- catalog abstract ""In Bodies of Evidence, Ian Burney offers a 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 English tribunal held to account for cases of unexplained death. Burney calls into question many of the basic assumptions about the rise of science as a model for socially authoritative knowledge. Bodies of Evidence elegantly evokes the workings of one of the more curious institutions of English civil society, an institution whose somber duties were performed with surprising (and occasionally unnerving) vitality."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11369665.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""In Bodies of Evidence, Ian Burney offers a 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 English tribunal held to account for cases of unexplained death. Burney calls into question many of the basic assumptions about the rise of science as a model for socially authoritative knowledge. Bodies of Evidence elegantly evokes the workings of one of the more curious institutions of English civil society, an institution whose somber duties were performed with surprising (and occasionally unnerving) vitality."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. The Genealogy of the Popular Inquest -- 2. Registers of Death: Inquests and the Regime of Vital Statistics -- 3. From the Alehouse to the Courthouse: Bodies and the Recasting of Inquest Practice -- 4. Telling Tales of the Dead: Inquests, Expertise, and the Postmortem Question -- 5. Fatal Exposures: Anesthetic Death and the Limits of Public Inquiry.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-236) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 245 p. ; :".
- catalog identifier "080186240X (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "2000 C-322".
- catalog subject "614/.1/0941 21".
- catalog subject "Cause of Death Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "History, 19th Century Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "History, 20th Century Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Jurisprudence Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Legislation, Medical Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Medical jurisprudence Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Medical jurisprudence Great Britain History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Medical laws and legislation Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Medical laws and legislation Great Britain History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "RA1053 .B87 2000".
- catalog subject "WZ 70 FA1 B965b 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Genealogy of the Popular Inquest -- 2. Registers of Death: Inquests and the Regime of Vital Statistics -- 3. From the Alehouse to the Courthouse: Bodies and the Recasting of Inquest Practice -- 4. Telling Tales of the Dead: Inquests, Expertise, and the Postmortem Question -- 5. Fatal Exposures: Anesthetic Death and the Limits of Public Inquiry.".
- catalog title "Bodies of evidence : medicine and the politics of the English inquest, 1830-1926 / Ian A. Burney.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".