The major theme of this book is the way the requirements, limitations, and intellectual structure of the British legal process have shaped medicine and medical practice. The story of this inter-relationship is greatly under-researched, which is of particular concern given that the legal system remains a significant and pervasive influence on medicine and its practice to this day. The question that unifies this series of historical studies is whether legal consideration of medical practice and concepts have played a part in the construction of medical concepts and affected developments in...