Textbook of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology: Principles and Practice (Paperback)

The book is a comprehensive and authoritative exposition of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology. It provides precise and useful information on relevant legal provisions and forensic anatomy, and promotes interdisciplinary understanding of issues where law an medicine converge. The text is oriented towards the practical problems encountered during day-to-day medicollegal work.

Salient Features
* Thoroughly revamped and revised edition carrying precise information in a concise manner.
* Radical changes have been effected in chapters: Forensic Thanatology; Sudden and Unexpected Deaths; Deaths due to Asphyxia; Deaths Associated with Surgery, Anaesthesia and Blood Transfusion; Custody Related Torture and/or Death; Medicolegal Examination of the Living; Injuries by Firearms; Complications of Trauma: Was wounding Responsible for Death?; Consent to and Refusal of Treatment; Medical Negligence; and Intricacies of Forensic Toxicology.
* Enriched with photographs, drawings, sketches, flowcharts, and tables for easy and catchy understanding.
* Old cases have been deleted and new ones, clinching to the text, have been incorporated making way for the readers to appreciate medicolegal implications.
* Reflects author’s personal experience of about three decades and the knowledge gathered from extensive reading, interactions, deliberations, etc. at varied platforms.

Table of Contents
* Chapter 1. Introduction to Forensic Medicine and Indian Legal System
* Chapter 2. Medicolegal Autopsy, Exhumation, Obscure Autopsy, Anaphylactic Deaths and Artefacts
* Chapter 3. Identification
* Chapter 4. Death and Its Medicolegal Aspects (Forensic Thanatology)
* Chapter 5.Sudden and Unexpected Death
* Chapter 6. Asphyxial Deaths
* Chapter 7. Infanticide and Foeticide
* Chapter 8. Thermal Deaths
* Chapter 9. Starvation and Neglect
* Chapter 10. Death by Electrocution
* Chapter 11. Deaths Associated with Surgery, Anaesthesia and Blood Transfusion
* Chapter 12. Custody Related Torture and/or Death
* Chapter 13. Injuries: Medicolegal Considerations and Types
* Chapter 14. Injuries by Blunt Force
* Chapter 15. Injuries by Sharp Force
* Chapter 16. Injuries by Firearms
* Chapter 17. Injuries by Explosives
* Chapter 18. Regional Injuries
* Chapter 19. Transportation Injuries
* Chapter 20. Medicolegal Examination of the Living
* Chapter 21. Complications of Trauma: Was Wounding Responsible for Death?
* Chapter 22. Medical Education vis-à-vis Medical Practice
* Chapter 23. Medical Negligence
* Chapter 24. Consent to and Refusal of Treatment
* Chapter 25. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: Medical, Social, Ethical and Legal Implications
* Chapter 26. Abortion and Delivery
* Chapter 27. Impotence, Sterility, Sterilisation and Artificial Insemination
* Chapter 28. Nullity of Marriage, Divorce and Legitimacy
* Chapter 29. Forensic Psychiatry
* Chapter 30. Basic Considerations in Drugs/Chemicals
* Chapter 31. Intricacies of Forensic Toxicology
* Chapter 32. Duties of a Doctor in Cases of Suspected Poisoning
* Chapter 33. Corrosive Poisons
* Chapter 34. Nonmetallic and Metallic Irritants
* Chapter 35. Irritants of Plant Origin
* Chapter 36. Irritants of Animal Origin
* Chapter 37. Somniferous Group
* Chapter 38. Alcohol and Alcoholism
* Chapter 39. Non-narcotic Drug Abuse
* Chapter 40. Deliriant Poisons
* Chapter 41. Spinal Poisons
* Chapter 42. Cardiac Poisons
* Chapter 43. Agro-Chemical Poisoning
* Chapter 44. Fumigants
* Chapter 45. Asphyxiants
* Chapter 46. Poisoning in Conflict: Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents
* Chapter 47. Hydrocarbons—Petroleum Distillates
* Chapter 48. Food Poisoning and Essential Metals' Toxicity