By Victoria Bates
Drawing on court docket files from London and the South West, Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England explores scientific roles in trials for sexual offences. Its specialise in sexual adulthood, a extra versatile notion than the criminal age of consent, permits histories of sexual crime to be visible in a brand new mild.
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Hacking, ‘Normal People’, p. 71. Patrick Geddes and J. Arthur Thomson, Sex (London: Williams and Norgate, 1914), p. 117. 40 Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England 40. Most practitioners were registered after it became a professional requirement in 1858, a process that often included recording their educational and professional backgrounds. The Medical Directory shows that Middlesex, Gloucestershire, Devon and Somerset practitioners often had similar medical training in London or Edinburgh and previous work experience in a range of locations.
P. Seventh Edition’, BMJ, 9 November 1861, 505, p. 505. 53. 0), trial of William Slater William Vivian in September 1860, t18600917-769; OBPO, trial of Hannah Maria Pipkins in January 1855, t18550129-261. 54. London, LMA, Pre-Trial Statements, James Westhall tried at the Middlesex Sessions on 29 September 1868 for carnal knowledge, MJ/SP/E/1868/017; Gloucester, Gloucestershire Archives (GA), Pre-Trial Statements, Thomas Cobb tried at the Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions on 19 October 1898 for assault with intent, Q/SD/2/1898.
Lay definitions of bodily norms fed into medical knowledge of when certain bodily changes moved from ‘healthy’ to ‘unhealthy’ or from ‘natural’ to ‘unnatural’. Although medical witnesses in court spoke little of the quack literature from which professionals sought increasingly to distance themselves, as the term ‘quack’ was associated with unqualified healers or the selling of false cures, this form of medical knowledge still had great significance for laypeople in the nineteenth century. 60 Nervous disorders, female ‘irregularity’ and gynaecological matters also all came within the province of general practitioners and sexual forensics.