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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781999703321

Autore

Becker Elisa Marielle

Titolo

Medicine, law, and the state in imperial Russia [[electronic resource] /] / Elisa M. Becker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, 2011

ISBN

963-9776-87-4

1-4416-9844-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (412 p.)

Disciplina

614.10947

Soggetti

Medical jurisprudence - Russia - History

Forensic psychiatry - Russia - History

Expertise - Political aspects - Russia - History

Physicians - Russia - History

Health reformers - Russia - History

Law reform - Russia - History

Medical policy - Russia - History

Russia Social policy

Russia Politics and government 1689-1801

Russia Politics and government 1801-1917

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-380) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Procedural immunity : medical knowledge in the age of legal certainty -- On the cusp of reform : making the expert scientific -- Legal mechanics : carving out a new identity -- Criminal procedure in social context -- Reform and the role of medical expertise.

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the theoretical and practical outlook of forensic physicians in Imperial Russia, from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, arguing that the interaction between state and these professionals shaped processes of reform in contemporary Russia. It demonstrates the ways in which the professional evolution of forensic psychiatry in Russia took a different turn from Western models, and how the process of professionalization in late imperial Russia became associated with liberal legal reform and led to the transformation of the autocratic state



system.