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Death Investigation in America - Jeffrey M. Jentzen

Death Investigation in America

Coroners, Medical Examiners, and the Pursuit of Medical Certainty
Buch | Hardcover
300 Seiten
2009
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-03453-2 (ISBN)
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Why is the American system of death investigation so inconsistent and inadequate? In this unique political and cultural history, Jeffrey 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.
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.

Jeffrey M. Jentzen, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Forensic Pathology and Director of Autopsy and Forensic Services at the University of Michigan Medical School, and former Medical Examiner in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.

* Introduction * Good and Lawful Men * Rockefeller Philanthropy and the Harvard Dream * A Model Law * Creating an Identity * In Search of Authority * Autonomy Challenged * Beyond Vital Statistics * The Road to Demedicalization * The Popularization of Forensic Pathology * In Search of Reasonable Medical Certainty * Epilogue * Notes * Select Bibliography * Acknowledgments * Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 29.11.2009
Verlagsort Cambridge, Mass
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Allgemeines / Lexika
Studium 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) Rechtsmedizin
ISBN-10 0-674-03453-8 / 0674034538
ISBN-13 978-0-674-03453-2 / 9780674034532
Zustand Neuware
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