This edited volume examines the performance and role of scientific experts in modern European courts of law and police investigations. It discusses cases from c

Essays explore forensic science in global and historical context, opening a critical window onto contemporary debates about the universal validity of present-da

This book provides the first comprehensive and detailed analysis of the Infanticide Act and its impact in England and Wales and around the world. It is 100 year

Communities great and small across Europe for eight centuries have contracted with doctors. Physicians provided citizen care, helped govern, and often led in pu

Juxtaposing and interlacing similarities and differences across and beyond the pre-modern Mediterranean world, Christian, Islamic and Jewish healing traditions,