Drawing on court records from London and the South West, Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England explores medical roles in trials for sexual offences. Its focus on sexual maturity, a more flexible concept than the legal age of consent, enables histories of sexual crime to be seen in a new light.
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Drawing on court records from London and the South West, Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England explores medical roles in trials for sexual offences. Its focus on sexual maturity, a more flexible concept than the legal age of consent, enables histories of sexual crime to be seen in a new light.
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Introduction: Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Forensics 1. Knowledge: The Foundations of Forensics 2. Injury: Signs and the Sexual Body 3. Innocence: Chastity and Character 4. Consent: Violence and the Vibrating Scabbard 5. Emotions: Medicine and the Mind 6. Offenders: Lust and Labels Conclusions: Medicine, Morality and the Law
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ISBN
9781137441706
Publisert
2015-10-29
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Vendor
Palgrave Macmillan
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216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, P, 06
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Engelsk
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Biographical note

Victoria Bates is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Bristol, UK. She has a particular research interest in the social and cultural history of medicine in modern Britain, including medico-legal history and medical humanities.