Full Description
This book on Medical Jurisprudence & Clinical Forensic Medicine addresses the evolving nature of law and medicine. It updates the medicolegal (ML) systems and discusses the concerns related to digitalization of courts, serving a subpoena through social media, ethical/ML issues in nanomedicine, telemedicine and online prescription practices, toxicology and mass disaster. It fulfils the increased demands of students, forensic medicine specialists, clinicians and lawyers to get authentic medicolegal information in situations of ethical dilemma or during ML urgencies. It features case-based discussions on ML and deontological issues supported by the latest legal/statutory information.
Key Features:
• Discusses the clinical and applied aspects of forensic medicine through illustrative case scenarios and reports.
• Addresses the needs of clinicians and forensic medicine specialists in writing medico-legal reports for specific cases.
• Provides evidence-based solutions to medicolegal and ethical dilemma faced during routine practice.
Contents
Section I: MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE
1. Introduction to Forensic Medicine
2. Medical Deontology
3. Medical Practice
4. Legal Procedure in India
5. Patient, Physician, and the Law
6. Documentation, Certification and Record-Keeping
7. Gifts to The Physician
8. Physician and The Will
Section II: CLINICAL FORENSIC MEDICINE
9. Establishing Identity of Individual
10. Medicolegal Aspects of Mechanical Wounds
11. Crimes Involving the Elderly
12. Crimes Involving Infants and Children
13. Sexual Crimes
14. Disorders of Fecundity
15. Medico-Legal Aspects of Pregnancy
16. Forensic Psychiatry
17. Violation of Human Rights and Torture Medicine
18. Violence Against Healthcare Professionals
19. Establishment of Healthcare Facilities
20. Basics of Healthcare Facilities Management
21. Medicolegal Management of Poisoning, Toxicity and Drug-Overdose
