Main description:

This 34th edition has been updated and revised. Certain topics, such as forensic ballistics, regional injuries, anaesthetic and operative deaths, DNA fingerprinting and blood stains have been dealt with in detail to meet the requirements of medical officers involved in medicolegal work and postgraduate students. A few new procedures to be followed in dealing with medicolegal cases, and virtual autopsy have been incorporated. 150 classical colour photographs have been added to make the subject easier. This book has no parallel and still is in high demand by undergraduates, postgraduates, teachers, medical officers, lawyers and researchers.

Contents:

SECTION I: FORENSIC MEDICINE

1. Introduction

2. Legal Procedure

3. Medical Law and Ethics

4. Identification

5. Medicolegal Autopsy

6. Death and Its Cause

7. Postmortem Changes

8. Mechanical Injuries

9. Regional Injuries

10. Medicolegal Aspects of Wounds

11. Thermal Deaths

12. Starvation

13. Mechanical Asphyxia

14. Anaesthetic and Operative Deaths

15. Impotence and Sterility

16. Virginity, Pregnancy and Delivery

17. Abortion

18. Sexual Offences

19. Infant Deaths

20. Blood Stains

21. Artefacts

22. Forensic Science Laboratory

23. Forensic Psychiatry

SECTION II: TOXICOLOGY

24. General Considerations

25. Agricultural Poisons

26. Corrosive Poisons

27. Metallic Poisons

28. Inorganic Irritant Poisons

29. Organic Irritant Poisons

30. CNS Depressants

31. Psychotropic Drugs

32. Deliriant Poisons

33. Drug Dependence and Abuse

34. Spinal Poisons

35. Cardiac Poisons

36. Asphyxiants

37. Miscellaneous Poisons

38. Food Poisoning

Appendices

Index