Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic medicine and Toxicology. Vol. 1

by R. A. Witthaus

Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Vol. 1 opens the four-volume reference edited by the chemist R. A. Witthaus and the lawyer Tracy C. Becker, published in New York from 1894 with chapters contributed by specialists. This volume deals with the law as it touches physicians: the right to practice and the licensing statutes of every American state and the Canadian provinces, the contract between physician and patient, fees and their recovery, the duties of medical expert witnesses, liability for malpractice, and the rules on privileged communications. It then begins the forensic medicine proper with chapters on the medical examination of the living and the dead, the signs of death, identification and the determination of the time of death. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.