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Global forensic cultures : making fact and justice in the modern era
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- Creator
- edited by Ian Burney and Christopher Hamlin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
- Physical Details
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- vi, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781421427508, 1421427508, 9781421427492, 1421427494
- OCLC
- on1091029351, on1048662406
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Forensic facts, the guts of rights / Christopher Hamlin -- Part I. Evidence and Epistemology. The value(s) of methods: method selection in German forensic toxicology in the second half of the nineteenth century / Marcus B. Carrier -- The Imperial serologist and punitive self-harm: bloodstains and legal pluralism in British India / Mitra Sharafi -- Handwriting analysis as a dynamic artisanal science: the Hardless detective dynasty and the forensic cultures of the British Raj / Projit Bihari Mukharji -- Spatters and lies: contrasting forensic cultures in the trials of Sam Sheppard, 1954-66 / Ian Burney -- Part II. Practices of Power and Policing. Death and empire: medicolegal investigations and practice across the British Empire / Jeffrey Jentzen -- Fingerprints and the politics of scientific policing in early twentieth-century Spain / José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez -- From Bedouin trackers to Doberman pinschers: the rise of dog tracking as forensic evidence in Palestine / Binyamin Blum -- "DNA evidence cannot lie": forensic science, truth regimes, and civic epistemology in Thai history / Quentin (Trais) Pearson -- Part III. Training and Transmitting. Cleaning out the mortuary and the medicolegal text: Ambriose Tardieu's modernizing enterprise / Bruno Bertherat -- The strange science: tracking and detection in the late nineteenth-century Punjab / Gagan Preet Singh -- Forensic knowledge and forensic networks in Britain's Empire: the case of Sydney Smith / Heather Wolffram -- Afterword: A tale of two cities? Locating the history of forensic science and medicine in contemporary forensic reform discourse / Simon A. Cole
Subjects
- Forensic sciences -- History.
- Forensic Sciences -- history.
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