TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - The body evidence
JO  - Revue d'Histoire des Sciences Humaines
A1  - Porret, M.
SP  - 37
EP  - 60
VL  - 22
IS  - 1
N2  - Under the Ancien Régime, the forensic medicine of the wounded or death body is regulated by numerous laws. The practice of the sworn experts (stout women, surgeons, doctors) marks the criminal justice. On the judicial stage, on that of the suicide, the experts diagnose positively the physical violence in numerous protocols of criminal investigation. So, they make objective all the material circumstances of the crime. Therefore, before the period of legality of the offences and the punishments (1791), the arbitrary power is guided by the stake in proof of the raped body which arouses a forensic case law.<p /> <p>Language: fr</p>
LA  - fr
SN  - 1622-468X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/rhsh.022.0037
ID  - ref1
ER  -