Modi's A Textbook of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology (HB)

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Description
Every edition of this monumental book of Modi's Textbook of Medical Jurisprudence & Toxicology is indeed an addition of what scientific learning and tools of investigation bring about for detection of crimes. As in the previous editions, so now, what I have attempted to assimilate is the scientific advancement in the areas of crime detection that have called to question some of the previously held popular assumptions and show them now to be either flawed or beset with mere probabilities negating certitude to the results of
investigation. Getting closest to the truth is the ultimate goal. The first is the subject of DNA profiling and DNA evidence. There are two documents of importance which have altered the way DNA analysis and the  scientific evidence must be approached. One is the Report to the American President on the topic, "Forensic Science in  Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature-comparison Methods” by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Another is Forensic DNA Analysis, a Primer for Courts issued by the Royal Society, of which the Indian born Nobel Laureate, Venki Ramakrishnan is the Chairman. This edition exposits the important recommendations and guidelines on how DNA evidence is prepared and the extent of reliance that will be possible for a Court as an important tool of evidence for detection of crime. The report brings to the fore the weight of evidence from complex/mixed DNA profile by using computer software and reveal statistical methods to analyse the complex/mixed DNA profile and to produce unmixed' profile. This means that the same data derived from complex/mixed DNA profile analysed repetitively by the same software can exhibit small differences in the resulting unmixed' DNA profiles; the same data derived from complex/mixed DNA profiles analysed by software programs can exhibit more marked differences in the resulting unmixed DNA profiles. It will help legal practitioners understand that the points for cross-examination could be to direct enquiry into the method and technique used for DNA collection and analysis.
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Contents
Section I. Medical Jurisprudence
Chapter 1.    History of Forensic Medicine
Chapter 2.    Legal Procedure in Criminal Courts
Chapter 3.    Medical Evidence and Medical Witness
Chapter 4.    Legal and Ethical Aspects of Medical Practice
Chapter 5.    Medical Negligence and Consumer Protection Act
Chapter 6.    HIV and AIDS: Legal and Ethical Implications
Chapter 7.    Human Rights and Torture Medicine
Chapter 8.    Medico-Legal Aspects of Death
Chapter 9.    Brain-stem Death and Transplantation of Human Organs Act
Chapter 10.  Personal Identity
Chapter 11.  Personal Identity from Skull
Chapter 12.  Examination of a Living person for Medico-Legal Purposes
Chapter 13.  Post-mortem Examination
Chapter 14.  Exhumation
Chapter 15.  Post-mortem Changes and Time Since Death
Chapter 16.  Post-mortem Artifacts
Chapter 17.  Examination of Biological Stains and Hair
Chapter 18.  Tools of Intergation
Chapter 19.  The Pathology of Sudden Natural Death
Chapter 20.  Deaths from Asphyxia
Chapter 21.  Death from Starvation, Cold and Heat
Chapter 22.  Injuries from Burns, Scalds, Lightning and Electricity
Chapter 23.  Radiation Injuries
Chapter 24.  Investigation of Deaths Related to Anaesthetic Procedures
Chapter 25.  Injuries by Mechanical Violence
Chapter 26.  Bomb Blast Injuries
Chapter 27.  Medico-Legal Aspects of Wounds
Chapter 28.  Traffic Injuries
Chapter 29.  Regional Injuries
Chapter 30.  Impotence, Sterility and Artificial Insemination
Chapter 31.  Virginity, Pregnancy and Delivery
Chapter 32.  Sexual Offences
Chapter 33.  Legitimacy and Legal Aspects of Marriage Annulment
Chapter 34.  Infanticide
Chapter 35.  Abortion, Medical Termination of Pregnancy and Female Foeticide
Chapter 36.  Mental III - Health and Its Medico-Legal Aspects
Chapter 37. Mechanical Irriatants
Appendices to Section 1
Appendix 1 :  Form of Certificate Recommended for leave or Extension or
                          Communication of leave and for fitness
Appendix 2 : The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Rules 2003
Appendix 3 : The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Regulations 2003
Appendix 4 : Employee's Compensation Act, 1923
Appendix 5 : The Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules, 2016
Appendix 6 : Forensic Acoustics and Recent Trends in Forensic Speaker Identification
Subject Index
Section II: Toxicology
Chapter 1.    Poisons and their Medico-legal Aspects
Chapter 2.    Corrosive Poisons
Chapter 3.    Inorganic Irritant Poisons (I)
Chapter 4.    Inorganic Irritant Poisons (II)
Chapter 5.    Organic Irritant Poisons (I)
Chapter 6.    Organic Irritant Poisons (II)
Chapter 7.    Mechanical Irritant Poisons
Chapter 8.    Somniferous Cerebral Poisons
Chapter 9.    Inebriant Cerebral Poisons
Chapter 10.  Deliriant Cerebral Poisons
Chapter 11.  Asphyxiants (Irrespirable Gases)
Chapter 12.  Mycotoxins
Appendix to Section 2
 Appendix 1 - Somniferous Cerebral Poisons : Analytical Methodology
Subject Index
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Author Details
Author - Jaising P. Modi
Revising Author - Dr. K. Mathiharan & Justice K Kannan
Dr. K. Mathiharan passed his MB, BS and MD (ForensicMedicine) from Madurai Medical College and Madras Medical Collegerespectively. The topic that led to his PhD degree by the Tamil Nadu DrMGR Medical University was Res Ipsa Loquitur: Its Application inMedical Negligence Cases under Consumer Protection Act. Afterpractising as a general practitioner, he joined the faculty of theInstitute of Forensic Medicine, Madras Medical College as an AssistantProfessor. Later, in Chennai, he founded the Institute of LegalMedicine, a data centre on medical law and ethics, consumer rights,human rights and other issues involving the relationship of the lifesciences to the social sciences and humanities. At present, he ispractising as a Consultant Legal Medicine.
Justice K. Kannan, Judge, Punjab & Haryana High Court Chandigarh
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