Making a space for medical expertise: medical knowledge of sexual assault and the construction of boundaries between forensic medicine and the law in late nineteenth-century England
This article looks at the boundary work performed by Victorian doctors in order to position themselves as beneficial to the court in helping to determine whether a woman had been raped. These doctors provided tangible physical evidence to support already widely-held beliefs about the nature of the r...
Main Authors: | Crozier, Ivan (Author), Rees, Gethin (Author) |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2012-06.
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