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Titles in the Medicolegal Field: A Proposal for Reform

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2021

William J. Curran
William J. Curran*
Affiliation:
Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health; Harvard Law School
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Abstract

One of the most readily apparent weaknesses in the field of medicolegal studies has been our inability to develop consistent and lexicographically defensible descriptive titles for the field itself. In this Article, Professor William J. Curran offers an analysis of the historical roots of the terminology which has been applied in this field over the years, an examination of current confused usage, and a proposal for reform.

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American Journal of Law & Medicine , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , March 1975 , pp. 1 - 11
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and Boston University 1975

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Footnotes

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This paper is based on materials in chapters of a forthcoming book on medicolegal relations by the author. Basic research was supported by a grant-inaid from the Commonwealth Fund of New York, N.Y. The paper will be published simultaneously in Europe in Medicine, Science and the Law, the official publication of the British Academy of Forensic Sciences.

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