Table of Contents

1. Introduction: the medico-legal landscape; 2. Medical education and forensic medicine; 3. Locating patterns of medico-legal provision; 4. Infant murder in medico-legal practice; 5. Crime (scene) investigation: expertise in action; 6. Conclusion: medicine and justice

About the Author

Katherine D. Watson is a Reader in History at Oxford Brookes University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her research interests focus on areas where medicine, crime and the law intersect, including the history of infanticide and crimes against children, forensic medicine and science, and an unusual form of assault known as vitriol throwing. She is the author of Poisoned Lives: English Poisoners and their Victims (2004) and Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History (2011).