Sir Sydney Smith’s contribution to the change of the medical detective’s working style from the ‘lone expert’ to ‘a team of scientists’ in early twentieth century England and Scotland

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Sir Sydney Smith’s contribution to the change of the medical detective’s working style from the ‘lone expert’ to ‘a team of scientists’ in early twentieth century England and Scotland

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Sir Sydney Smith was a well‐respected forensic pathologist in Britain during the twentieth century. While there is some secondary literature on Smith, it does not examine him and his various interesting cases in detail. Furthermore, few historians attempted to compare the English and the Scottish traditions of forensic medicine, or medical jurisprudence. Consequently, the effects of these different traditions on the medical experts who assisted in crime investigations have not been fully appr...

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2014

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Huang, Mei-Chien

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http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10448

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Medical and Health Sciences / History and Archaeology / Other History and Archaeology / History and Archaeology not elsewhere classified

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