CRI215H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Bmj, Serology, Precipitin
20 Sep 2019
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In global forensic cultures: making fact and justice in the. In 1916, news of conflict between south indian caste communities, reached the british medical. A key part of their job was to test stains for the court: his task was to use precipitin testing to assess whether blood was human or animal, the testing determined the species of origin of a bloodstain. The technique took hold in india because it spoke to a priority of the colonial state: the detection of fabricated evidence in cases involving south. One textbook called false evidence and fabricated charges the great difficulty of judges in india: fear of the false existed in britain with strong class - and gender-based associations. In british india this falsity was on a different scale; they were racialized, too. Projit mukharji"s characterization of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as the age of.
