Citation

Toulouse O, Soustre de Condat B, Barthès A, Laly F, Marc B. Rev. Med. Leg. 2011; 2(1): 12-16.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.medleg.2011.02.002

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Library researches allow the authors to present the evolutionary history of the couple justice-medicine in Antiquity. The history of the forensic expertise cannot be dissociated from that of medicine, nor of that of the laws and not of advantage of that of the societies. Legal approach of the compensation for the damages caused by medical acts which will give rise to the legal one, as well as the evaluation of the physical injury go back to one very moved back time. In the first times, justice is a divine tradition, and they are the priests who are agents of medical knowledge. Then, from the wire of the centuries, medicine escapes the ministers of religion and the men set up laws, which are the reflection of the society in which they evolve. Initially, the acts seem to have the prevalence on the physical injury, which can result from it. Then, starting from the after-effects the concept of damage interest appears.