TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jentzen,Jeffrey M.
TI  - Death Investigation in America: Coroners, Medical Examiners, and the Pursuit of Medical Certainty 
SN  - 9780674054066
AV  - RA1063 ǂb J46 2009eb 
U1  - 614/.1 
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Coroners
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Death
KW  - Causes
KW  - Medical examiners (Law)
KW  - TRUE CRIME / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. Good and Lawful Men --; 2. Rockefeller Philanthropy and the Harvard Dream --; 3. A Model Law --; 4. Creating an Identity --; 5. In Search of Authority --; 6. Autonomy Challenged --; 7. Beyond Vital Statistics --; 8. The Road to Demedicalization --; 9. The Popularization of Forensic Pathology --; 10. In Search of Reasonable Medical Certainty --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Select Bibliography --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access
N2  - A death occurs at home, in a hospital, on a street: why? As Jeffrey Jentzen reveals, we often never know. Why is the American system of death investigation so inconsistent and inadequate? What can the events of the assassination of President Kennedy, killing of Bobby Kennedy, and Chappaquiddick reveal about the state of death investigation?If communities in early America had a coroner at all, he was politically appointed and poorly trained. As medicine became more sophisticated and the medical profession more confident, physicians struggled to establish a professionalized, physician-led system of death investigation. The conflict between them and the coroners, as well as politicians and law enforcement agencies, led to the patchwork of local laws and practices that persist to this day.In this unique political and cultural history, Jentzen draws on archives, interviews, and his own career as a medical examiner to look at the way that a long-standing professional and political rivalry controls public medical knowledge and public health
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054066
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674054066
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674054066/original
ER  -