The fourth edition of this well-respected book provides a broad overview of the medico-legal issues arising in both criminal and civil proceedings. Written by a highly respected academic, the new edition ensures the text is brought fully up to date with new material on wounds, explosions, head injury, transplantation, asphyxia, marriage and pregnancy, and the legal aspects of medical practice.
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Höhe: 236 mm
Breite: 153 mm
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978-0-406-91442-2 (9780406914422)
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"Introduction1. Some Aspects of Applied Anatomy and Physiology2. Comparative Medico-Legal Systems3. Identification of the Dead and of Remains4. Post-Mortem Changes and the Timing of Death5. Legal Disposal of the Dead6. The Spread of Communicable Disease: Some Aspects of Public Health7. Sudden Natural Death8. Wounding9. Injury and Death Due to Firearms and Explosives10. Accidental Injury and Death Due to Deceleration and Accleration11. Head Injury12. The Transplantation of Organs13. Asphyxia and Allied Conditions14. Fire, Water, Heat, Cold and Neglect15. Industrial Injury and Disease16. Medico-Legal Aspects of Sport17. Medico-Legal Aspects of Marriage and Pregnancy18. Unnatural Death of the Fetus and the Newborn: Abortion, Child Destruction and Infanticide or Child Murder19. Injury and Death in Infancy and Childhood20. Sexual Offences21. Poisons and Poisoning22. The Law Relating to Drugs and Poisons23. Drug Addiction24. Medico-Legal Aspects of Alcohol25. Forensic Toxicology26. Radiology in Forensic Medicine27. Forensic Psychiatry28. Forensic Odontology29. Legal Aspects of Medical Practice30. Medical Ethics31. Deaths Associated with Medical and Surgical CareIndex"
