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Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus: Laws of Men and Laws of Nature: The History of Scientific Expert Testimony in England and America by Tal Golan

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• Ciencias de la Salud›Medicina›Medicina (en General)

"The Criminal Sexual Psychopath in Canada: Sex, Psychiatry and the Law at Mid- Century".

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Abstract. In 1948,Canadian parliamentarians unanimously voted in favour of adopting criminal sexual psychopath legislation. An American invention that combined the force of the law with the curative abilities of psychiatry, sexual psychopath laws were the product of faith in science, and especially ";mental health,"; to solve social problems, combined with growing public anxiety about violent sexual assault, particularly against children. This mid-century medico-legal experiment has been well documented by American historians.

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• Ciencias de la Salud›Medicina›Medicina (en General)

Physicians, Abortions, and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Ontario.

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This article studies the medical and legal responses to the abortion-related death of Constance Ida Browne of Toronto, Ontario in 1924. The subsequent coroner's inquest led to a criminal prosecution of Browne's doctor and also her male lover on charges of illegally procuring a miscarriage. The legal proceedings and the detailed press commentary of the time offer an excellent opportunity to consider the interaction between medical and legal authorities jostling for position over the proper response to the demand for illegal abortions.

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• Ciencias de la Salud›Medicina›Medicina (en General)

Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus: Contracting a Cure: Patients, Healers, and the Law in Early Modern Bologna by Gianna Pomata

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Tema: general: 

• Ciencias de la Salud›Medicina›Medicina (en General)

Victims of Vaccination?: Opposition to Compulsory Immunization in Ontario, 1900-90.

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During the past two decades, many parents in Europe and North America have begun to question the routine use of immunization for the prevention of disease. Their concerns are the latest segment in the long history of lay people attempting to control the medical treatment they and their children receive. This article focuses first upon the social and political dimensions of one particular struggle over compulsory vaccination against smallpox in the city of Toronto during the first two decades of this century.

Tema: general: 

• Ciencias de la Salud›Medicina›Medicina (en General)

Les causes de décès au Québec au XIXe siècle: le problème des sources.

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During the past two decades, many parents in Europe and North America have begun to question the routine use of immunization for the prevention of disease. Their concerns are the latest segment in the long history of lay people attempting to control the medical treatment they and their children receive. This article focuses first upon the social and political dimensions of one particular struggle over compulsory vaccination against smallpox in the city of Toronto during the first two decades of this century.

Tema: general: 

• Ciencias de la Salud›Medicina›Medicina (en General)