Full Description
**Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 in Toxicology**
The second edition of Forensic Toxicology: Principles and Concepts takes the reader back to the origins of forensic toxicology providing an overview of the largely unchanging principles of the discipline. The text focuses on the major tenets in forensic toxicology, including an introduction to the discipline, principles of forensic toxicology including pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, drug interactions and toxicogenomics, fundamentals of forensic toxicology analysis, types of interpretations based on analytical forensic toxicology results, and reporting from the laboratory to the courtroom. Also included in the second edition is a Unit focused on the forensic toxicology of individual drugs of abuse.
Contents
UNIT I: PRINCIPLES OF TOXICOLOGY
1. Principles of Pharmacokinetics
2. Principles of Pharmacodynamics
3. Drug Interactions
4. Toxicogenomics
UNIT II: INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY
5. The development of forensic toxicology
6. The Duties and Responsibilities of Forensic Toxicologists
7. Forensic Toxicology Resources
8. The Laboratory
UNIT III: ANALYSIS
9. Analytical Strategy
10. Sample Handling
11. Storage Stability of Analytes
12. Analytical Samples
13. Sample Preparation
14. Methods of Detection, Identification, and Quantitation
15. Quality Assurance and Quality Control
16. Analytical Errors
UNIT IV: INTERPRETATION
17. Types of Interpretations
18. Factors that Influence the Interpretations of Analyte Concentration
UNIT V: REPORTING
19. Reports
20. Testifying
UNIT VI: DRUGS OF ABUSE
21. Ethanol
22. Opioids
23. Morphine
24. Heroin
25. Fentanyls
26. Cannabinoids
UNIT VII: Cases in Toxicology
27. The Case of William Palmer
28. The Case of Marie Bernard
29. The Case of Claus von Bulow
30. Physician Poisoners
Appendix A. Glossary
