caa a22 4500 388082917 CHVBK 20180307125222.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/744183 doi S0738248000006829 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/744183 Becker Elisa M. Judicial Reform and the Role of Medical Expertise in Late Imperial Russian Courts [Elektronische Daten] [Elisa M. Becker] In both the United States and Western Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, forensic physicians engaged in bitter jurisdictional disputes with members of well-established legal professions, within the context of long-standing judicial institutions. In Russia, by contrast, the emergent medical and legal professions—both critical of the autocracy and state institutions in which they worked—joined forces in their attempts to fundamentally transform the autocratic system and its judicial institutions, based on claims of technical and professional expertise. As such, the development of forensic-medical expertise took a path that differed from the Western model. In Russia, forensic physicians reacted to and influenced the evolution of bureaucratic state structures. Consequently, medical professionals sought to increase—rather than minimize—their role within the state's legal system in order to transform an otherwise arbitrary judicial process along the lines of "scientific rationality” and "objectivity.” Copyright © the American Society for Legal History, Inc. 1999 Law and History Review Cambridge University Press 17/1(1999), 1-26 0738-2480 17:1<1 1999 17 LHR https://doi.org/10.2307/744183 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/744183 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Becker Elisa M. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Law and History Review Cambridge University Press 17/1(1999), 1-26 0738-2480 17:1<1 1999 17 LHR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge