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Laws of men and laws of nature : the history of scientific expert testimony in England and America / Tal Golan.

By: Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.Description: viii, 325 p. : map ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0674025806
  • 9780674025806
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 347.42067 22
LOC classification:
  • KD7521 .G65 2004
Contents:
1. "Where there's muck there's brass": the rise of the modern expert witness; 2. The common liar, the damned liar, and the scientific expert: the growing problem of expert testimony; 3. Who shall decide where experts disagree? The Nineteenth-century debates; 4. Blood will out: distinguishing humans from animals and scientists from charlatans; 5. The authority of shadows: the law and x-rays; 6. Science unwanted: the law and psychology; Epilogue; Notes; Index
List(s) this item appears in: Digitisation of books_T1 of AY 2025-26
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BOOKs National Law School General Stacks 347.42067 GOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) PB Available Recommended by Dr. Manpreet Singh Dhillon 40239

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-313) and index.

1. "Where there's muck there's brass": the rise of the modern expert witness;
2. The common liar, the damned liar, and the scientific expert: the growing problem of expert testimony;
3. Who shall decide where experts disagree? The Nineteenth-century debates;
4. Blood will out: distinguishing humans from animals and scientists from charlatans;
5. The authority of shadows: the law and x-rays;
6. Science unwanted: the law and psychology;
Epilogue;
Notes;
Index

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