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Death investigation in America : coroners, medical examiners, and the pursuit of medical certainty / Jeffrey M. Jentzen.
- Title
- Death investigation in America : coroners, medical examiners, and the pursuit of medical certainty / Jeffrey M. Jentzen.
- Author
- Jentzen, Jeffrey M., 1953-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | RA1063 .J46 2009 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 290 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "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."--Inside jacket.
- Subject
- Cause of Death
- Cause of Death > United States
- Coroners > United States > History
- Coroners and Medical Examiners
- Coroners and Medical Examiners > history
- Death > United States > History
- Forensic Medicine
- Forensic Medicine > history
- Forensic Medicine > legislation & jurisprudence
- Forensic Medicine > legislation & jurisprudence > United States
- History, 20th Century
- History, 20th Century > United States
- Medical examiners (Law) > United States > History
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0674034538 (alk. paper)
- 9780674034532 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009004969
- 40017186012
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library