the applied use of medical knowledge or practice, esp pathology, to the purposes of the law, as in determining the cause of death
Also called: medical jurisprudence, legal medicine
Examples of 'legal medicine' in a sentence
legal medicine
Two new disciplines- criminal physical anthropology and legal medicine- contributed to the development of specialized knowledge within intellectual circles.
Pedro Motta de Barros 1997, 'Alvorecer de uma nova ciência: a medicina tropicalista baiana The dawning of a newscience', História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhoshttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-59701997000300002. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Examinations were social currencies used to facilitate the relationship between the power and knowledge of legal medicine and criminology.
Ferla, Luis 2014, 'La pericia médico legal como forma de producir la verdad y sus adversarios en lostribunales brasileños de entreguerras', Asclepio: Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Cienciahttp://asclepio.revistas.csic.es/index.php/asclepio/article/view/606/746. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)