Full Description
The 15th edition of Simpson's Forensic Medicine provides an overview of all that is relevant in practice at the interface between medicine and law. Its long-standing reputation as one of the world's leading introductory texts in the field of forensic & legal medicine is reflected by easy to read and informative text, complemented by numerous colour images, tables and figures.
Identifying current forensic & legal medicine practice, the comprehensive coverage encompasses all aspects of forensic pathology, clinical forensic medicine, legal medicine and highlights contemporary topic such as non-fatal strangulation, deaths in custody, safeguarding, intimate-partner violence as well as subjects such as asphyxial deaths, the impact of heat, cold & electrical trauma, and immersion and drowning.
Forensic & legal medicine is intimately involved with the criminal and civil justice systems including family law. Forensic & legal medicine and forensic science are closely linked and for all those whose work brings them into contact with such subjects, Simpson's provides an immediate source of accessible knowledge. Students and practitioners in such settings can understand how their area of work or study interrelates and interacts with others in different settings. Simpson's is, therefore, a textbook of choice for those studying forensic & legal medicine or forensic science, and for forensic practitioners, law students, law enforcement personnel, healthcare professionals, and judges, coroners and other legal professionals.
Contents
Medicine, Science and the Law
1 Principles of forensic practice
2 The ethics of medical practice
3 Medicolegal aspects of death
Forensic Pathology
4 Violence in society, medicolegal investigation of death and the autopsy
5 The appearance of the body after death
6 Death from natural causes
7 Deaths and injury in infancy
The pathology of trauma
8 Assessment, classification and documentation of injury
9 Ballistic injuries
10 Regional injuries and patterns of injury
Common topics in forensic pathology
11 Pressure to the neck & asphyxia deaths
12 Heat, cold & electrical trauma
13 Immersion and drowning
Clinical Forensic Medicine
14 Identification of the living and the dead
15 Restraint and control techniques
16 Police custodial healthcare
17 Sexual assault and genitoanal injury and female genital mutilation
18 Safeguarding and protection of children and vulnerable adults
19 Transportation medicine
20 Torture, and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
21 Principles of forensic science and crime scene investigation
22 Principles of toxicology
23 Alcohol (ethanol)
24 Licit and illicit drugs
25 Medicinal poisons and miscellaneous poisons
26 Miscellaneous poisons
