Death Investigation in America - Coroners, Medical Examiners, and the Pursuit of Medical Certainty

Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey M. Jentzen
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2009
• EAN: 9780674034532
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03453-2
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Medicine: general issues, MEDICAL / Public Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, TRUE CRIME / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, LAW / Health, Forensic Medicine