Forensic Medicine

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Description
Written in accordance with the curriculum prescribed under the Medical Council Regulations, this book aims to serve as a comprehensive text for the medical students. It aims to enable them to acquire sufficient knowledge and skills in managing the common medicolegal problems encountered in day-to-day practice of a clinician. The book will help the readers in:
• imbibing the basics of forensic medicine
• understanding the functioning of the judicial system and their
role in the administration of justice
• developing  their  ability  to  examine   medicolegal   cases,
   record  their observations and draw logical conclusions
• learning and adopting methods of collection, preservation and despatch
of necessary material objects of evidentiary value to appropriate laboratories,and
• interpreting  and cor elating the results with the clinical/autopsy data which
 are described in detail in the text.
 Amidst the plethora of texts, this book claims to be not an addition but an exception:
 It covers not only the essential facts but also the various practica
 steps and procedures to handle all types of medicolegal issues.
 This is an excellent text and manual to completely meet the needs
 of the undergraduate medical students and equip them to face the
 challenges in the medicolegal field in their career as practising doctors.
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Contents
1.    Introduction
2.    Legal Procedure
3.    Ethical Aspects of Medical Practice
4.    Doctor and the Consumer Protection Act
5.    Personal Identity
6.    DNA Analysis
7.    Forensic Thanatology
8.    Postmortem Changes
9.    Sudden Natural Death
10.    Medicolegal Autopsy
11.    Exhumation
12.    Mechanical Injuries
13.    Firearm and Explosion Injuries
14.    Regional Injuries
15.    Vehicular Accidents
16.    Thermal Injury
17.    Murder
18.    Medicolegal Aspects of Injuries
19.    Asphyxial Deaths
20.    Virginity
21.    Sexual Offences
22.    Pregnancy
23.    Delivery
24.    Abortion
25.    Medical Termination of Pregnancy
26.    Infanticide
27.    Impotence
28.    Forensic Psychiatry
29.    Torture
30.    Scientific Methods of Crime Investigation
31.    Forensic Toxicoloogy
32.    Caustic Chemicals
33.    Nonmetallic Irritants
34.    Metallic Irritants
35.    Plant Posions
36.    Pesticides
37.    Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic substances
38.    Alcohol
39.    Food Poisoning
40.    Snake Poisoning
41.    Bioterrorism and Chemical Warfare
42.    Hazards of Blood Transfusion
43.    Legal and Ethical Issues in Biomedical Research
44.    Legal Aspects of Assisted Reproductive Techniques
Annexations
Index
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Author details
B.Umadethan MD
is currently Professor and Head,  Department of Forensic Medicine, College of Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Kochi, Kerala, Earlier he has been Professor and Head, Department of Forensic Medicine in the Medical Colleges of
Trivandrum, Alappuzha and Thrissur, and has functioned as Police Surgeon of the respective districts. He was the Director, State Medicolegal Institute, Trivandrum, and the State Medicolegal Expert and Consultant. He has also served as the Medicolegal Adviser to Keraia Police and guest faculty at the Police Training College. Briefly he has also worked as the Medicolegal Consultant in Libya. As a forensic pathologist, he has received encomium from the judiciary and law enforcement agencies. He has perfected techniques of photographic superimposition andplastic reconstructionof face from skull. He has written several articles and books; some of his well-known works are Science in the Detection of Crime, Investigation of Unnatural Deaths, Practical Forensic Medicine, Principles & Practice of Forensic Medicine, Forensic Medicine and Memoirs of a Police Surgeon,
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