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Fiala, Irene Jung.

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Final report: The medicolegal officer and the social production of public health statistics.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Final report: The medicolegal officer and the social production of public health statistics./
Author:	Fiala, Irene Jung.
Description:	177 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-07, Section: A, page: 2670.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-07A.
Subject:	Sociology, Theory and Methods. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3097193
ISBN:	0496448072

Final report: The medicolegal officer and the social production of public health statistics.
Fiala, Irene Jung.

Final report: The medicolegal officer and the social production of public health statistics. - 177 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-07, Section: A, page: 2670.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2003.

This paper examines medicolegal verdicts rendered at the coroner or medical examiner's office and explore the social implications that such verdict decisions have. I argue that medicolegal death verdicts are variable across jurisdictions and maintain that variation in death investigation results in the variation of public health and crime statistics. The research problem addressed here is the identification of social factors underlying this variation and the manner in which statistic generation is influenced. Guided by the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, this paper examines how scientific knowledge is a constructive process and dependent on social context. An autopsy rate, autopsy index and death investigation rate were calculated for four states, each representing a different form of medicolegal system in the United States. Truth tables were constructed to examine whether or not necessary and sufficient conditions exist to lead to a certain outcome measures. A Fisher's Exact Probability Test and Kruskal-Wallis Nonparametric Correlation tests were also conducted. The data suggest that social factors, specifically, the budget available for death investigation and the medicolegal officer's belief in the accuracy of medical information provided them, influence death investigation and subsequently, medicolegal death statistics. I conclude that what is believed to be true with respect to variation in disease and mortality, incidence and prevalence of pathology and to deviant acts such as homicide and suicide, represent variations that are inevitably produced in the process of death investigation.

ISBN: 0496448072Subjects--Topical Terms:

626625
Sociology, Theory and Methods.

Final report: The medicolegal officer and the social production of public health statistics.
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