Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic medicine and Toxicology. Vol. 1

A comprehensive reference integrates medical jurisprudence, forensic medicine, and toxicology to guide the application of medical knowledge to legal questions. Early sections address legal relations and duties, confidentiality and evidentiary issues, and statutes regulating the practice of medicine. Forensic chapters treat postmortem science and the legal status of the dead body, coroner procedures, autopsy technique, personal identification, and methods for estimating time of death. Detailed discussions examine wounds and gunshot injuries as well as causes of death such as drowning, suffocation, heat and cold, starvation, and electrical injury. Toxicology emphasizes detection and interpretation of poisoning in medicolegal contexts and includes contributions from clinical and chemical specialists.