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Medicine, Law, and the State in Imperial Russia / Elisa M. Becker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (412 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789639776876
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 614.10947 22
LOC classification:
  • RA1022.R9 B3 2011eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Procedural Immunity: Medical Knowledge in the Age of Legal Certainty -- Chapter 2 On the Cusp of Reform: Making the Expert Scientific -- Chapter 3 Legal Mechanics: Carving Out a New Identity -- Chapter 4 Criminal Procedure in Social Context -- Chapter 5 Reform and the Role of Medical Expertise -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Examines the theoretical and practical outlook of forensic physicians in Imperial Russia, from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, arguing that the interaction between state and these professionals shaped processes of reform in contemporary Russia. It demonstrates the ways in which the professional evolution of forensic psychiatry in Russia took a different turn from Western models, and how the process of professionalization in late imperial Russia became associated with liberal legal reform and led to the transformation of the autocratic state system.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9789639776876

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Procedural Immunity: Medical Knowledge in the Age of Legal Certainty -- Chapter 2 On the Cusp of Reform: Making the Expert Scientific -- Chapter 3 Legal Mechanics: Carving Out a New Identity -- Chapter 4 Criminal Procedure in Social Context -- Chapter 5 Reform and the Role of Medical Expertise -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

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Examines the theoretical and practical outlook of forensic physicians in Imperial Russia, from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, arguing that the interaction between state and these professionals shaped processes of reform in contemporary Russia. It demonstrates the ways in which the professional evolution of forensic psychiatry in Russia took a different turn from Western models, and how the process of professionalization in late imperial Russia became associated with liberal legal reform and led to the transformation of the autocratic state system.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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