HIST 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Medicalization, Murder Act 1751, Blood Alley
18 Oct 2017
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Medicalization: the law defers to the medical profession. Contra bonus mores: dead is dead (this is a nursery rhyme) Intersection of their biographies cause a scandal within the history of britain: burke: is an irishman (stereotypically regarded as the lowest of the low) the. English are at the top while scotland is in the middle. He eventually joined the army and spent 7 years in the war. He randomly left his family and went to scotland, there was speculation about his family but this is not certain. Trying to finish the labor canal: hare: born in ireland. Arrived at the same time as burke and met at the canal in 1818. Finished in 1822: logg: she was a widow. She tried to take over for her husband. She is hare"s girlfriend: mcdougall: burkes girlfriend. One day they all bump into each other around 1827, they become friends in a pub.
