Textbook Of Forensic Medicine And Toxicology: Principles And PracticeElsevier India, 2008 - 756 pages The book is a comprehensive and authoritative exposition of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology. It provides precise and useful information on relevant legal provisions and forensic anatomy, and promotes interdisciplinary understanding of issues where law an medicine converge. The text is oriented towards the practical problems ncountered during day-to-day medicollegal work. About the Author : - Krishnan Vij, MD, L.L.B. is Professor and Head, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Government Medical College & Hospital, Chandigarh, India. |
Contents
INDIAN LEGAL SYSTEM 823 | 8 |
MEDICOLEGAL AUTOPSY EXHUMATION OBSCURE AUTOPSY ANAPHYLACTIC | 24 |
IDENTIFICATION 4689 | 46 |
LEGAL MORAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES 9098 | 90 |
DEATH AND ITS MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS FORENSIC THANATOLOGY 101133 | 101 |
SUDDEN AND UNEXPECTED DEATH 134146 | 134 |
INFANTICIDE AND FETICIDE 192208 | 192 |
THERMAL DEATHS 209228 | 209 |
ABORTION AND DELIVERY 498510 | 498 |
IMPOTENCE STERILITY STERILIZATION AND ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION 511518 | 511 |
NULLITY OF MARRIAGE DIVORCE AND LEGITIMACY 519524 | 519 |
FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY 525550 | 525 |
FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY | 551 |
INTRICACIES OF FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY 561574 | 561 |
DUTIES OF A DOCTOR IN A CASES OF SUSPECTED POISONING 575583 | 575 |
IRRITANT POISONS 593611 | 593 |
STARVATION AND NEGLECT 229231 | 229 |
DEATH ASSOCIATED WITH SURGERY AND ANAESTHESIA 241248 | 241 |
CUSTODY RELATED TORTURE ANDOR DEATH 249256 | 249 |
INJURIES MEDICOLEGAL CONSIDERATIONS AND TYPES 259278 | 259 |
INJURIES BY BLUNT FORCE 279295 | 279 |
INJURIES BY FIREARMS 308344 | 308 |
INJURIES BY EXPLOSIVES 345349 | 345 |
TRANSPORTATION INJURIES 383391 | 383 |
Clinical Forensic Medicine | 393 |
COMPLICATIONS OF TRAUMA WAS WOUNDING RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATH? 436451 | 436 |
MEDICAL EDUCATION VISÀVIS MEDICAL PRACTICE 455465 | 455 |
MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE 466481 | 466 |
CONSENT TO AND REFUSAL OF TREATMENT 482490 | 482 |
ACQUITTED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME MEDICAL SOCIAL ETHICAL | 491 |
IRRITANTS OF PLANT ORIGIN 612617 | 612 |
IRRITANTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN 618626 | 618 |
SOMNIFEROUS GROUP 627633 | 627 |
ALCOHOL AND ALCOHOLISM 634647 | 634 |
NONNARCOTIC DRUG ABUSE 648660 | 648 |
DELIRIANT POISONS 661663 | 661 |
CARDIAC POISONS 668674 | 668 |
AGROCHEMICAL POISONING 675686 | 675 |
FOOD POISONING 711716 | 711 |
ANNEXURES | 717 |
Declaration of Tokyo 1975 | 729 |
Proforma for Medicolegal Examination of Injuries 735736 | 735 |
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