Bodies of Evidence: Medicine and the Politics of the English Inquest, 1830-1926 - Burney, Ian
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Burney (history of science, technology, and medicine, U. of Manchester) explores the tension between two models of the coroner's inquest, held to account for cases of unexplained death. On the one hand, he says, advocates of progressive medical science wanted it to align with a medical model of investigation and explanation. Others wanted to frame it as a time-honored bulwark of English popular liberties. He finds that this contention between medical and political visions throws doubt on the basic assumptions about he rise of science as a model for socially authoritative knowledge.

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Burney (history of science, technology, and medicine, U. of Manchester) explores the tension between two models of the coroner's inquest, held to account for cases of unexplained death. On the one hand, he says, advocates of progressive medical science wanted it to align with a medical model of investigation and explanation. Others wanted to frame it as a time-honored bulwark of English popular liberties. He finds that this contention between medical and political visions throws doubt on the basic assumptions about he rise of science as a model for socially authoritative knowledge.
Autorenporträt
Ian A. Burney is a Wellcome Research Lecturer at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester.