商品簡介
This interesting volume on the medical profession and the state in nineteenth-century Russia examines the role of an emerging professional class and its relationship to the legal system, through forensic medicine and mental health evaluation. The volume discusses the way in which doctors were able to influence the judiciary, firmly in the control of the imperial government, and to further reforms in a modernizing, yet still deeply autocratic, society. Becker is a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. Distributed by Books International. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Elisa M. Becker holds a doctorate in the History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Washington, D.C.
