Title: Medicina legal y derecho en Antioquia (1914-1938)
Abstract: This research article shows Antioquian cases, but also Bogotá and Cundinamarca ones, which allow understanding that transformation horizon resulting from the regulation of legal medicine in Colombia, as well as the influence of Italian positive school and the degeneration theory in medical legal expert opinions on the defendant's mental state. Likewise, it takes into consideration that criminal law is a way of social control exercised from the juridical order and from the development of knowledge such as legal medicine, which affects behaviors considered as punishable acts, as the acts of a man deemed abnormal. Discussions between medical doctors and lawyers of that historical moment favored the acceptance of this knowledge. The Criminal Code of 1936, in effect from 1938, replaced 1890 Criminal Code; however, this was not an easy change, still today the classical thinking is noticed, and despite that Italian positive school postulates were known in the country, they could only be partially imposed in 1936 with the new Criminal Code.