SIMPSON'S FORENSIC MEDICINE

Prestigious and authoritative, this fully updated fourteenth edition of Simpson's Forensic Medicine remains a classic; one of the world's leading introductory texts in the field of forensic medicine. It presents all that the generalist or student needs to know about the interface between m...

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Other Authors: Payne-James, Jason (Editor), Jones, Richard (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, Florida CRC Press 2020
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Table of Contents:
  • Principles of forensic practice
  • The ethics of medical practice
  • Medicolegal aspects of death
  • Violence in society, medicolegal investigation of death, the autopsy
  • The appearance of the body after death
  • Death from natural causes
  • Deaths and injury in infancy
  • Assessment, classification and documentation of injury
  • Ballistic injuries
  • Regional injuries and patterns of injury
  • Pressure to the neck & asphyxial deaths
  • Heat, cold & electrical trauma
  • Immersion and drowning
  • Identification of the living and the dead
  • Restraint and control techniques
  • Police custodial healthcare
  • Sexual assault and genitoanal injury
  • Safeguarding and protection of children and vulnerable adults
  • Transportation medicine
  • Torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
  • Principles of forensic science and crime scene investigation
  • Principles of toxicology
  • Alcohol (ethanol)
  • Licit and illicit drugs
  • Medicinal poisons and miscellaneous poisons.