1st Edition
Infanticide Expert Evidence and Testimony in Child Murder Cases, 1688–1955
By Rachel Dixon
Copyright 2022
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
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Infanticide examines medical expert evidence in infanticide cases, focusing specifically on the shifting notion of "certainty" in medical testimony. Beginning in the Early Modern period and concluding in the mid-twentieth century, it considers how courts determined whether an infant died from natural causes or other reasons, including violence.
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Introduction
- A historiography of infanticide and the use of medical experts in criminal trials
- Midwifery evidence in infanticide cases
- The role of medical men in infanticide cases
- Medical evidence and mental state of the infanticidal woman
- The expert evidence of the pathologist in infanticide cases
- Conclusion
Bibliography
Biography
Rachel Dixon began her career as a nurse and later a midwife before studying Law at the University of Hull, Hull, England. She is currently a lecturer in Law at the University of Hull, where she teaches Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. This book is her PhD thesis and her first publication.
