TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Putting the public back in public health: An argument for the articulation of fatality reviews and coroners' inquests
JO  - Homicide studies
A1  - Neuilly, Melanie-Angela
SP  - 339
EP  - 352
VL  - 17
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1088-7679
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1088767913494387
ID  - ref1
ER  -