Forensic Medicine (Paperback)

The book will help the readers in: imbibing the basics of forensic medicine and understanding the functioning of the judicial system and their role in the administration of justice and developing their ability to examine medicolegal cases record their observations and draw logical conclusions and learning and adopting methods of collection preservation and despatch of necessary material objects of evidentiary value to appropriate laboratories and interpreting and cor elating the results with the clinical/autopsy data which are described in detail in the text. This is an excellent text and manual to completely meet the needs of the undergraduate medical students and equip them to face the challenges in the medicolegal field in their career as practising doctors.

About the Author
B. Umadethan is currently Professor and Head Department of Forensic Medicine. College of Medicine Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre Kochi Kerala. Earlier he has been Professor and Head Department of Forensic Medicine In the Medical Colleges of Trivandrum Alappuzha and Thrissur and has functioned as Police Surgeon of the respective districts. He was. The Director. State Medico legal Institute Trivandrum and the state Medico legal Expert and Consultant. He has also served as the Medico legal Adviser to Kerala Police and guest faculty at the Police Training College. Briefly he has also worked as the Medico legal Consultant in Libya.

Table of Contents
* Preface
* Course Content
* Integrated Teaching
* Internal Assessment
* University Examination
* Introduction
* Legal Procedure
* Ethical Aspects of Medical Practice
* Personal Identity
* DNA Analysis
* Forensic Thanatology
* Sudden Natural Death
* Medicolegal Autopsy
* Exhumation
* Mechanical Injuries
* Firearm and Explosion Injuries
* Regional Injuries
* Vehlcular Accidents
* Thermal Injury
* Murder
* Medicolegal Aspects in Injuries
* Asphyxial Deaths
* Virginity
* Sexual Offences
* Pregnancy
* Delivery
* Abortion
* Medical Termination of Pregnancy
* Infanticide
* Impotence
* Forensic Psychiatry
* Torture
* Scientific Methods of Crime Investigation
* Forensic Toxicology
* Couslic Chemicals
* Nonmetallic Irritants
* Metallic Irritants
* Plant Poisons
* Pesticides
* Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances
* Alcohol
* Food Poisoning
* Snake Poisoning
* Bioterrorism and Chemical Warfare
* Hazards of Blood Transfusion
* Legal and Ethical Issues in Biomedical Research
* Legal Aspects of Assisted Reproductive Techniques
* Annexations
* Index