Paul-Augustin-Olivier Mahon - Médecine Légale, et Police Médicale - 1807

Exciting three-volume edition of this important medical treatise devoted to the relationships between scientific knowledge, medical practice, and the administration of justice -

French physician, professor of forensic medicine and the history of medicine at the Paris School of Medicine, Mahon is among the first authors to have contributed to the organization of this discipline in France -

His work sets out the fundamental principles of medico-legal expertise, the skills required of the physician called to illuminate judicial decisions, and the moral responsibilities that accompany this function, notably integrity, impartiality and rigor in observation -

Paul-Augustin-Olivier Mahon - Forensic Medicine, and Medical Police - 1807 - Volumes I, II and III - Arthus Bertrand -
xxxi + 366 + 506 + 246 pages -

Condition of bindings; volumes in their full original brown morocco leather, epidermures and rubbing, some defects (loss of material) on covers and spine, bumped heads with losses, corners worn, speckled edges, smooth spine adorned, gilded titling and volume numbers on pieces of red and green morocco, fillets stamped in relief surrounding the covers -

Good interior condition, some stains, text fairly clean, marbled endpapers in good condition, a pleasing copy -

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