Simpson's Forensic Medicine (Hardcover, 14)

I Medicine and the law

• Principles of forensic practice
• The ethics of medical practice
• Medical aspects of death (definition of death, transplantation, death certification)

• Medico-legal investigation of death
• The autopsy
• The appearance of the body after death
• Sudden death from natural causes

• The pathology of trauma
• Assessment, classification and documentation of injury (blunt, sharp, ballistic)
• Regional injuries and patterns of injury (head, neck, spine, chest, abdomen; road traffic collisions/ other transport incidents, falls, assault)
• Sequelae/ consequences of trauma
• Selected topics in forensic pathology
• Pressure to the neck & ‘asphyxial’ deaths
• Heat, cold & electrical trauma
• Immersion and drowning

• Identification of the living
• Use of force/ restraint
• Police custody medicine (including management of the vulnerable prisoner/ deaths in custody)

• The vulnerable patient
• Sexual assault
• Child safeguarding
• Elder abuse
• Transportation medicine

Forensic science

Principles of forensic science and crime scene investigation

Toxicology

• Alcohol
• Licit and illicit drugs
• Medicinal poisons
• Miscellaneous poisons

Forensic anthropology & archaeology

• Recovery of human remains
• Identification
• Developing a biological profile
• Mass disasters

Forensic odontology

Forensic psychology/ psychiatry