Essential Forensic Medicine (Paperback)

Preface

The Editors

Contributors

Acknowledgements

1. The legal system, courts and witnesses
Peter Vanezis

2. Investigation of the deceased and their lawful disposal
Peter Vanezis

3. The duties of a registered medical practitioner and the General Medical Council
Peter Vanezis

4. General principles of scene examination
Peter Vanezis

5. The medico-legal autopsy
Peter Vanezis

6.  Interpretation of injuries – general principles, classification and age estimation
Peter Vanezis

7.  Blunt impact trauma
Peter Vanezis

8. Sharp force trauma
Peter Vanezis

9. Firearms and explosion injuries
Peter Vanezis

10. Forensic aspects of Asphyxia and drowning
Peter Vanezis

11. Forensic medical aspects of human rights issues
Peter Vanezis

12. Sexual offences
Philip Beh

13. Paediatric forensic medicine
Philip Beh and Peter Vanezis

14. Sudden natural death
Peter Vanezis

15. Heat, cold and electricity
Peter Vanezis

16. Diagnosing death and changes after death
Peter Vanezis

17. Identification – general principles including anthropology, fingerprints and the investigation of mass deaths
Peter Vanezis

18. Use of DNA in human identification
Denise Syndercombe-court

19. Forensic odontology and human identification
Philip Marsden

20. Crime and mental health/forensic psychiatry
Vivek Khosla and Orlando Trujillo-bueno

21. Maternal deaths
Mahomed Dada

22. The examination of detainees and death in custody
Peter Vanezis

23. Forensic toxicology: clinic-pathological aspects and medico-legal issues
Nadia Porpiglia, Chiara Laposata and Franco Tagliaro

24. Illicit drug use
Giovanni Serpelloni and Claudia Rimondo