Main description:

Presented in pointwise manner, this well-referenced text has been extensively updated. Important points are highlighted in coloured boxes.

Contents:

Section 1: Forensic Medicine

1. Forensic Medicine: Meaning and Importance

2. Legal Procedure

3. Medical Jurisprudence

4. Identification

5. Forensic Osteology

6. DNA Profiling

7. Death and Changes after Death

8. Medicolegal Autopsy

9. Injury: General Considerations and Biophysics

10. Mechanical Injury

11. Firearm Injuries and Bomb Blast Injuries

12. Regional Injuries

13. Road Traffic Accidents

14. Injury: Medicolegal Considerations

15. Injuries due to Cold, Heat, Electricity and Lightning

16. Violent Asphyxia

17. Virginity, Sexual Offenses and Perversions

18. Impotence, Sterility and Sterilization xv

19. Pregnancy and Delivery

20. Abortion and Medical Termination of Pregnancy

21. Infant Deaths and Female Feticide

22. Legitimacy, Paternity and

23. Assisted Reproduction

24. Starvation

25. Euthanasia

26. Human Rights, Torture and Medical Ethics

27. Medicolegal Aspects of AIDS

28. Anesthetic and Operative Deaths

29. Medicolegal Aspects of Embalming

30. Forensic Psychiatry

31. Trace Evidences

32. Forensic Science Laboratory

Section 2: Toxicology

33. Toxicology: General Considerations

34. Toxicology: Medicolegal Considerations

35. Corrosive Poisons

36. Inorganic Irritants: Nonmetallic Poisons

37. Inorganic Irritants: Metallic Poisons

38. Organic Irritants: Plants

39. Organic Irritants: Animal Bites and Stings

40. Mechanical Irritants

41. Pesticides

42. Cardiac Poisons

43. Somniferous Poisons

44. Inebriant Poisons

45. Deliriant Poisons

46. Spinal Poisons

47. Peripheral Nerve Poisons

48. Asphyxiants

49. Food Poisoning

50. Drug Dependence and Abuse

51. War Gases