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By James C. Mohr. Approximately 320 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 1993. $35. ISBN 0-19-505384-2.

"Tragedy" is not too strong a word to describe the story this book tells. Those familiar with today's deplorable relations between the medical profession and the legal profession will be surprised to learn that in the second quarter of the 19th century, "medical jurisprudence" was on the verge of becoming a major specialty that would use the findings of medical science in the legal system for the public good. How that vision died and left us with a gulf between law and medicine is the subject of Mohr's well-researched and serviceably written (if not sprightly) book.

In the early days . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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