Facets

1824 CE

#13409

Receuil de mémoires, consultations et rapports sur divers objets de médecine légale.

Chaussier pioneered the practice of forensic medicine in France. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1950 CE

#1757

Reciprocal skin homografts in a medico-legal case of familial identification of exchanged identical twins.

Skin grafting used to decide the relationship of identical twins who had been accidentally separated at birth.

1809 CE

#10267

Recueil général des lois, réglemens, décisions et circulaires sur le service des hôpitaux militaires. 2 vols.

On the organization and administration of French military hospitals during the Napoleonic era, and probably the most comprehensive account published up to this time on the administration of military hospitals in gener…

1573 CE

#6143

Reformation oder Ordnung für die Hebammen.

Legislation governing the practice of midwifery was introduced in the city of Frankfurt in 1573, Digital facsimile from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek at this link.

2017 CE

#12840

Reinventing Hippocrates. Edited by David Cantor.

"The name of Hippocrates has been invoked as an inspiration of medicine since antiquity, and medical practitioners have turned to Hippocrates for ethical and social standards. While most modern commentators accept tha…

1828 CE

#7096

Report from the select committee on anatomy. House of Commons, 22 July 1828.

In the first half of 1828, in response to increasing calls for reform, the British Parliament appointed a committee to "enquire into the manner of obtaining subjects for dissection by schools of Anatomy and the State …

1831 CE

#11759

Report of the Select Committee of the House of Representatives ... legalizing the study of anatomy.

This was the first law passed in the United States consigning the bodies of those who died in workhouses, hospitals, and similar institutions, the bodies of whom were "unclaimed," to medical schools for dissection. "S…

1825 CE

#11730

Report of the trial of an action: Charles Lowell against John Faxon and Micajah Hawks, doctors of medicine, defendants, for malpractice in the capacity of physicians and surgeons: At the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, holden at Machias for the county of Washington, June term, 1824, before the Hon. Nathan Weston, Jun., justice of the court.

A detailed narrative on the trial based on the transcript. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1818 CE

#9508

Secours à donner aux personnes empoisonnées ou asphyxiées, suivis des moyens propres à reconnaître les poisons et les vins frelatés et à distinguer la mort réelle de la mort apparente.

Translated into English by B. H. Black and published in 1819 as Directions for the treatment of persons who have taken poison, and those in a state of apparent death: Together with the means of detecting poisons and a…

2002 CE

#7536

Sexual blackmail: A modern history.

1982 CE

#10046

Splicing life: A report on the social and ethical issues of genetic engineering with human beings.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1983 CE

#12173

Stephanus the Philosopher. A commentary on the Prognosticon of Hippocrates. Edited and translated by John M. Duffy. [CMG XI 1,2]

1991 CE

#10359

Strangers at the bedside: A history of how law and bioethics transformed medical decision making.

The first history of bioethics.

1916 CE

#8599

Studies in ethics for nurses.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1997 CE

#10361

Subjected to science: Human experimentation in America before the Second World War.

1891 CE

#13172

Suggestions to the medical witness.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1985 CE

#1757.2

Surgeons at the Bailey. English forensic medicine to 1878.

1825 CE

#1736

System der psychisch-gerichtlichen Medizin, oder theoretisch-praktische Anweisung zur wissenschaftlichen Erkenntniss und gutachtlichen Darstellung der krankhaften persönlichen Zustände, welche vor Gericht in Betracht kommen.

The first important work exclusively on medico-legal aspects of insanity. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1725 CE–1729 CE

#1729

Systema jurisprudentiae medicae. 2 vols.

A work covering the whole field of medical jurisprudence as then understood, and ranking in importance with the work of Valentini. The first supplement was published in Halle, 1733. The much-expanded second edition, i…

1835 CE

#11750

Systematisches Handbuch der gerichtlichen Psychologie für Medicinalbeamte, Richter und Vertheidiger.

A comprehensive manual on forensic psychiatry, preceding Isaac Ray's book by three years. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2008 CE

#7943

The administration of sickness: Medicine and ethics in nineteenth century Algeria.

1999 CE

#8141

The American medical ethics revolution: How the AMA's code of ethics has transformed physicians' relationships to patients, professionals, and society.

2009 CE

#9332

The anatomy murders: Being the true and spectacular history of Edinburgh's notorious Burke and Hare and of the man of science who abetted them in the commission of their most heinous crimes.

1972 CE

#2199.1

The angel of Bethesda [1724] edited, with introduction and notes by Gordon W. Jones.

The only large systematic compilation of medical knowledge prepared in the Thirteen Colonies before the American revolution. The manuscript, which Mather finished in 1724, remained unpublished in the American Antiquar…

1962 CE

#8893

The battered-child syndrome.

"In 1962, Dr. C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues led the identification and recognition of child abuse with the defining paper, The Battered Child Syndrome. This paper was regarded as the single most significant event …

1998 CE

#7986

The birth of bioethics.

1999 CE

#10053

The black stork: Eugenics and the death of "defective" babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915.

2020 CE

#12989

The body of evidence. Corpses and proofs in early modern European medicine. Edited by Francesco Paolo de Ceglia.

"When, why and how was it first believed that the corpse could reveal ‘signs’ useful for understanding the causes of death and eventually identifying those responsible for it? The Body of Evidence. Corpses…

2009 CE

#7222

The Cambridge world history of medical ethics. Edited by Robert B. Baker and Lawrence B. McCullough.

1935 CE

#10057

The care of the aged, the dying and the dead.

Digital facsimile of the 2nd edition (1940) from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1927 CE

#10355

The care of the patient.

Full text from depts.washington.edu at this link.

1937 CE

#10198

The Citadel.

This novel was "groundbreaking with its treatment of the contentious theme of medical ethics. It has been credited with laying the foundation in Great Britain for the introduction of the NHS a decade later.[1] "For hi…

1904 CE

#1

The code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon about 2000 BCE. Autographed text, transliteration, translation, glossary, index of subjects, lists of proper names, signs, numerals, corrections, and erasures, with map, frontispiece, and photograph of text by Robert Francis Harper.

The Code of Hammurabi was found among the cuneiform tablets of the library of Ashurbanipal. It is now in the Louvre. It was first published in Scheil, "Textes élamites-sémitiques. Deuxième s&eacut…

1993 CE–1995 CE

#8130

The codification of medical morality: Historical and philosophical studies of the formalization of western medical morality in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Vol. 1: Volume One: Medical ethics and etiquette in the eighteenth century. Vol. 2: Anglo-American medical ethics and medical jurisprudence in the nineteenth century. Edited by Robert Baker, Dorothy Porter and Roy Porter.

1683 CE

#1761

The conclave of physicians, detecting their intrigues, frauds, and plots, against their patients.

1890 CE

#7229

The deaf soldier: A brief synopsis of one hundred and two cases of deafness. Prepared for the consideration of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States.

One of the earliest accounts of the recognition of loss of hearing due to firearms and explosions during war. Foster, secretary and treasurer of the Silent Army of Deaf Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, presented 100 cas…

1872 CE

#13171

The detection of criminal abortion, and a study of foeticidal drugs.

Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1896 CE

#444.1

The diary of a resurrectionist 1811-1812, to which are added an account of the resurrection men in London and a short history of the passing of the Anatomy Act.

First-hand account of the activities of the so-called “sack-em-up” men who flourished in England and Scotland until passage in 1832 of the Anatomy Act provided legal means for physicians to obtain cadavers…

1953 CE

#6623.01

The doctor and the devils.

The great lyric poet’s screenplay based on the notorious career of Robert Knox, the anatomist who purchased bodies for dissection from the resurrectionists/murderers, Burke and Hare. This was the first screenpla…

2012 CE

#9330

The doctor dissected: A cultural history of the Burke and Hare murders.

1924 CE

#1758

The doctor’s oath, an essay in the history of medicine.

The Hippocratic Oath forms the basis of medical ethics. It was probably an ancient temple oath of the Asclepiadae, and not a genuine Hippocratic document. In the above work the various manuscripts of the Oath are enum…

2010 CE

#13735

The double helix and the law of evidence.

"... Kaye weaves together molecular biology, population genetics, the legal rules of evidence, and theories of statistical reasoning as he describes the struggles between prosecutors and defense counsel over the admis…

2005 CE

#9672

The elements of murder: A history of poison.

2005 CE

#12556

The embryo: Scientific discovery and medical ethics. Edited by Shraga Blazer and Etan Z. Zimmer.

Addresses 1: The beginning of life, 2: Embryonic stem cells, 3: Societal, ethical and religious views on genetic intervention in humans, 4: Genetics-From in vitro to in vivo, 5: Fetal surgical and pharmacological inte…

1979 CE

#8134

The emergence of Roman Catholic medical ethics in North America: An historical, methodological, bibliographical study.

1986 CE

#10351

The end of life: Euthanasia and morality.

Full text available from Jamesrachels.org at this link.

2015 CE

#8724

The evolution of forensic psychiatry: History, current developments, future directions. Edited by Robert L. Sadoff.

2015 CE

#11368

The genealogy of a gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and race.

"Myles Jackson uses the story of the CCR5 gene to investigate the interrelationships among science, technology, and society. Mapping the varied “genealogy” of CCR5—intellectual property, natural sele…

1995 CE

#13655

The health of prisoners: Historical essays edited by Richard Creese, W. F. Bynum and J. Bearn

2015 CE

#8431

The Hippocratic Corpus: Content and context.