Textbook of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology: Principles & Practice - e-book

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Elsevier Health Sciences, Sep 30, 2013 - Medical - 612 pages
  • Thoroughly revamped and revised edition carrying precise information in a concise manner.
  • Radical changes have been effected in the chapters Death and Its Medicolegal Aspects: Forensic Thanatology; Sudden and Unexpected Deaths; Asphyxial Deaths; Deaths Associated with Surgery, Anaesthesia and Blood Transfusion; Custody Related Torture and/or Death; Medicolegal Examination of the Living; Injuries by Firearms; Complications of Trauma: Was Wounding Responsible for Death?; Consent to and Refusal of Treatment; Medical Negligence; and Intricacies of Forensic Toxicology.
  • Enriched with photographs, drawings, sketches, flowcharts, and tables for easy and catchy understanding.
  • Old cases have been replaced with new ones, making way for the readers to appreciate medicolegal implications.
  • Reflects author’s personal experience of about three decades and the knowledge gathered from extensive reading, interactions, deliberations, etc. at various platforms.
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction to Forensic Medicine and Indian Legal System
3
Chapter 2 Medicolegal Autopsy Exhumation Obscure Autopsy Anaphylactic Deaths and Artefacts
17
Chapter 3 Identification
35
Chapter 4 Death and Its Medicolegal Aspects Forensic Thanatology
74
Chapter 5 Sudden and Unexpected Death
100
Chapter 6 Asphyxial Deaths
110
Chapter 7 Infanticide and Foeticide
146
Chapter 8 Thermal Deaths
159
Chapter 31 Intricacies of Forensic Toxicology
438
Chapter 32 Duties of a Doctor in Cases of Suspected Poisoning
448
Chapter 33 Corrosive Poison
454
Chapter 34 Nonmetallic and Metallic Irritants
463
Chapter 35 Irritants of Plant Origin
476
Chapter 36 Irritants of Animal Origin
481
Chapter 37 Somniferous Group
489
Chapter 38 Alcohol and Alcoholism
495

Chapter 9 Starvation and Neglect
173
Chapter 10 Death by Electrocution
175
Chapter 11 Deaths Associated with Surgery Anaesthesia and Blood Transfusion
183
Chapter 12 Custody Related Torture andor Death
191
Medicolegal Considerations and Types
197
Chapter 14 Injuries by Blunt Force
213
Chapter 15 Injuries by Sharp Force
225
Chapter 16 Injuries by Firearms
234
Chapter 17 Injuries By Explosives
266
Chapter 18 Regional Injuries
270
Chapter 19 Transportation Injuries
296
Chapter 20 Medicolegal Examination of the Living
304
Was Wounding Responsible for Death?
335
Chapter 22 Medical Education visāvis Medical Practice
346
Chapter 23 Medical Negligence
361
Chapter 24 Consent to and Refusal of Treatment
370
Medical Social Ethical and Legal Implications
376
Chapter 26 Abortion and Delivery
380
Chapter 27 Impotence Sterility Sterilisation and Artificial Insemination
393
Chapter 28 Nullity of Marriage Divorce and Legitimacy
400
Chapter 29 Forensic Psychiatry
405
Chapter 30 Basic Considerations in DrugsChemicals
429
Chapter 39 Nonnarcotic Drug Abuse
506
Chapter 40 Deliriant Poisons
518
Chapter 41 Spinal Poisons
521
Chapter 42 Cardiac Poisons
525
Chapter 43 Agrochemical Poisoning
531
Chapter 44 Fumigants
541
Chapter 45 Asphyxiants
546
chemical and biological warfare agents
552
Chapter 47 HydrocarbonsŠPetroleum Distillates
558
Chapter 48 Food Poisoning and Essential Metals Toxicity
562
Scientific Aids to Investigative Techniques
571
Proforma for Age Certification
573
Proforma for Medicolegal Examinationof Injuries
575
Proforma for Examination of a Victimof Sexual Assault
577
Proforma for Examination of an Accusedof Sexual Offence
579
IssuingSupplying Copies of Injuryandor Postmortem ReportsMLR andor PMR
581
Penal Provisions Applicable toMedical Persons
582
Penal Provisions Affording Protection toMedical Persons
583
Standard WeightsMeasuresDimensionsof OrgansTissues
584
Index
585
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