@article{ref1,
title="Putting the public back in public health: An argument for the articulation of fatality reviews and coroners' inquests",
journal="Homicide studies",
year="2013",
author="Neuilly, Melanie-Angela",
volume="17",
number="4",
pages="339-352",
abstract="Fatality reviews are part of the public health arsenal to mortality prevention. As such they rely on medico-legal practitioners' participation. Yet medico-legal practice in the United States is still divided between the scientific approach of medical examiners systems and the political approach of coroners systems. I argue that this is related to the public's reluctance to let go of its jurisdiction over death as a social fact. I posit that attempts at systematizing coroners' inquests, as in Washington State, illustrate such resistance, yet could be conceived as a compromise between the political and the scientific, benefiting public health and the goal of fatality reviews.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1088-7679",
doi="10.1177/1088767913494387",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1088767913494387"
}