The Medical Profession and the Police
| Author | John Glaister |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X3000300205 |
| Published date | 01 April 1930 |
| Date | 01 April 1930 |
The
MedicalProfession and thePolice
By JOHN
GLAISTER,
M.D., ETC.
Regina Professor of Forensic Medicine in the University of Glasgow and
Medico-Legal Adviser in Crown Cases
IN the body politic, the medicalprofession and the police
play important parts and fulfil important functions; the
former by conserving thepublic health and tending theills of
the people, and thelatter by securing the maintenance of law
and order and protecting thelives and property of thelieges.
It
is impossiblealmost togo back toa point of time inthe
history of anynation layinganyclaimtobecivilized without
connoting a relationmoreorless intimate between the ad-
ministration of law andorder and the medical profession,
especially incrimesof violence.
It would circumscribe theobjectof thisarticle toomuch
if one were to designateby the term '
police'
merely the
important executive branch of theadministration of thelaw,
and itwill be well, therefore, to interpret by the
term'
police'
the'
judicial and executive systemin a nationaljurisprudence
whichisspecially concerned to maintain public order, liberty,
property and individual security , while keepinginmind that
one of theprincipal duties of a police force is toprevent crime
and to secureoffenders against thelaw.
The
evil proclivitiesof mankind from time immemorial
inone formespecially havebeenmanifested in deeds of
violence on their fellows. Probably it was becauseof this,
in earlier times,that the relationship between the medical
profession andthe law became firstestablished, since the
learnedleech of thetimewas theonly person competent to
help thelaw regarding the nature of theinjuriesof victimsof
assault.
Thus
there originated an association between themedical
profession and the law, anassociation whichcame to be known
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