Principles and Practice of Forensic Medicine

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Description
This is the thoroughly revised, enlarged and updated edition of the well known text-reference in the field of forensic medicine. The book presents over 700 colour and grayscale pictures and diagrams to describe the elements as well as practiceof forensic medicine.
Apart from clinical forensic medicine and forensic pathology, it discusses recent advances and modern trends in the field and allied specialties which will be very useful for the doctors, lawyers and law enforcement agencies. Topics such as
• forensic odontology
• forensic radiology
• forensic toxicology
• forensic psychiatry
• torture and doctors
• medical law and ethics
• transplantation of human organs,
• narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances
• hazards of blood transfusion
• biomedical research
• consumer laws
• Employees Compensation Act
• Employees State Insurance Act
• medical records keeping
• ethicolegal aspects of HIV/AIDS, etc. are included.
• Recent amendments in the criminal law have been incorporated.
• 'Doctor in Court' describes the judicial system in our country and gives guidelines as to how a doctor
   should conduct himself in a court      of law.
• Embalming techniques and related legal aspects are dealt with in a separate chapter. Apart from
   theoretical information, practical         aspects of all types of medicolegal work are dealt with.
• Samples of certificates and proformas given in the book will help the practising doctors to draft
   necessary certificates for the medicolegal cases handled by them.
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Contents
Chapter 1.    Death
Chapter 2.    Police Inquest
Chapter 3.    Medicolegal autopsy
Chapter 4.    Forensic Taphonomy
Chapter 5.    Human Skeletal Remains
Chapter 6.    Trace Evidence
Chapter 7.    DNA Analysis
Chapter 8.    Brain FingerPrinting
Chapter 9.    Mechanical Injuries
Chapter 10.    Firearm and Explosion Injuries
Chapter 11.    Regional Injuries
Chapter 12.    Injuries due to Fall
Chapter 13.    Traffic Accidents
Chapter 14.    Murder
Chapter 15.    Medicolegal Aspects of Injuries
Chapter 16.    electricity, Lightning, Radiation
Chapter 17.    Thermal Injuries
Chapter 18.    Asphyxial Deaths
Chapter 19.    Neonatal and Infant Deaths
Chapter 20.    Sudden Natural Death
Chapter 21.    Virginity
Chapter 22.    Pregnancy
Chapter 23.    Assisted Reproductive Techniques
Chapter 24.    Delivery
Chapter 25.    Abortion
Chapter 26.    Medical Termination of Pregnancy
Chapter 27.    Sexual Offences
Chapter 28.    Impotence
Chapter 29.    Forensic Psychiatry
Chapter 30.    Forensic Radiology
Chapter 31.    Estimation of Age
Chapter 32.    Forensic Odontology
Chapter 33.    Anaesthetic, Maternal and Operative Deaths
Chapter 34.    Forensic Toxicology
Chapter 35.    Poisoning
Chapter 36.    Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance
Chapter 37.    Food Poisoning
Chapter 38.    Alcoholism
Chapter 39.    Ophitoxemia
Chapter 40.    Blood Transfusion
Chapter 41.    Transplantation of Human Organs
Chapter 42.    Biomedical Research
Chapter 43.    Medical Law and Ethics
Chapter 44.    Consumer Protection Act
Chapter 45.    Employees Compensation Act
Chapter 46.    Employees' State Insurance Act
Chapter 47.    Medical Record Keeping
Chapter 48.    Doctor in Court
Chapter 49.    Torture
Chapter 50.    Embalming
Chapter 51.    Biological and Chemical Terrorism
Chapter 52.    Ethico-Legal Issues in HIV/AIDS
Chapter 53.    Forensic Sciences
Appendices
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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 Kerala 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 and plastic reconstruction of 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, Forensic Medicine for the Police. Forensic Medicine and Memoirs of a Police Surgeon.
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