author
Stanley B. (Stanley Bean) Atkinson
1873–1910
A doctor, barrister, and public servant from London’s East End, this early 20th-century writer brought rare firsthand knowledge to medico-legal questions. His work turns complex issues of evidence, public health, and the law into practical reading.
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Golden rules of medical evidence
by Stanley B. (Stanley Bean) Atkinson
About the author
Born in 1873, Stanley Bean Atkinson built an unusually wide-ranging career as both a physician and a barrister. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College, then wrote on the meeting point between medicine and law.
His books include The Law in General Practice, Life, Birth, and Live-Birth: A Medico-Legal Study, and Golden Rules of Medical Evidence. That background gave his writing a clear, useful tone: he was not treating legal medicine as an abstract subject, but as something doctors and lawyers had to handle in real life.
Atkinson was also active in public service in Stepney, serving in local government and related public bodies. He died in 1910 at only 36, but his work still stands out for the way it connects medical practice, legal evidence, and everyday social questions in Edwardian Britain.