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Medico-legal Practices in the Fifteenth Century Dubrovnik

We analized the beginnings of medico-legal practeces in Dubrovnik , using the first eight books of criminal records series Liber de maleficiis from the 15th century. We also looked into the mechanisms of individual and public control of the issues such as the patient-physician relationship and the control of epidemics. It became clear that surgeons rather than physicians reported wounds to the court of justice, and provided the expertise when requested by the authorities. Cold steel weapons were the usual instruments of violent offences, and the most frequently harmed part of the body was the head. The involvement in the control of violence in 15th century Dubrovnik corresponded to th role played by physicians and surgeons in the leading continental European centers of the period.

history of medicine; forensic; medico-legal expertise; criminal records; law and medicine; 15th century; Dubrovnik -Croatia

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