A lawyer’s primer, packed with cases, on where medicine and the courts met in the nineteenth century. Chapters trace early practitioners and the laws that governed them, then work through fees and who must pay them, who may lawfully practise, negligence and malpractice suits, criminal responsibility, and the doctor’s peculiar standing as an expert witness.
A readable window on Victorian medical law, useful to historians of medicine and anyone curious how malpractice began. Download the free EPUB.