Download or read book The Jurisprudence of Medicine in Its Relations to the Law of Contracts, Torts, and Evidence written by John Ordronaux and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ordronaux, John. The Jurisprudence of Medicine in its Relation to the Law of Contracts, Torts, and Evidence: with a Supplement on the Liabilities of Vendors of Drugs. Philadelphia: T. & J.W. Johnson, 1869. xvi, 310 pp. Reprint available March, 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-503-3. Cloth. $95. * According to Kronick, this is the "first genuine work on medical jurisprudence as distinguished from legal medicine." It contains four sections: Rights, Remedies, and Liabilities of Physicians, with a subchapter on superintendents of asylums for the insane; medical evidence, with a full chapter on evidence in cases of alleged insanity; the ethics of medicine; and, the jurisprudence of pharmacy. A lawyer and physician who held chairs at Columbia Law School and Dartmouth Medical School, Ordronaux [1830-1908] also served as the first New York State commissioner for the mentally ill. Kronick, Landmark Books in Legal Medicine, 1981.