TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jentzen,Jeffrey M.
TI  - Death Investigation in America: Coroners, Medical Examiners, and the Pursuit of Medical Certainty
SN  - 9780674054066
AV  - RA1063 
U1  - 614/.1 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Medical examiners (Law)-United States-History
KW  - Coroners-United States-History
KW  - Death-United States-Causes-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Good and Lawful Men -- 2. Rockefeller Philanthropy and the Harvard Dream -- 3. A Model Law -- 4. Creating an Identity -- 5. In Search of Authority -- 6. Autonomy Challenged -- 7. Beyond Vital Statistics -- 8. The Road to Demedicalization -- 9. The Popularization of Forensic Pathology -- 10. In Search of Reasonable Medical Certainty -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
N2  - 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
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