Forensic Medicine category: 194 books
by Zoya Schmuter M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Over the last 22 years in the New York Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Schmuter performed thousands of autopsies and testified in courts hundreds of times. Many of these cases present interest for a general reader, especially given the attention to this profession in the last decade in movies,...
Clinicians in Court, Second Edition
A Guide to Subpoenas, Depositions, Testifying, and Everything Else You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Interacting with the legal system can be stressful and intimidating for mental health professionals. This trusted book provides user-friendly strategies to help clinicians prepare for testimony in court and other legal proceedings. Using vivid case scenarios, the author explains legal terms and offers...
Sociopolitics of Migrant Death and Repatriation
Perspectives from Forensic Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
As scholars have by now long contended, global neoliberalism and the violence associated with state restructuring provide key frameworks for understanding flows of people across national boundaries and, eventually, into the treacherous terrains of the United States borderlands. The proposed volume...
Essentials of Autopsy Practice
Innovations, Updates and Advances in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Essentials of Autopsy Practice: Innovations, Updates and Advances in Practice is the fifth volume in the Essentials in Autopsy Practice series, covering topics of current and future interest. Designed to keep all involved in the investigation of death abreast of changes within the field, this volume...
by Clarence R. Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
Human hair is the subject of a wide range of scientific investigations. Its chemical and physical properties are of importance to the cosmetics industry, forensic scientists, and to biomedical researchers. This updated and enlarged fourth edition continues the tradition of its predecessor as being...
The Death Pit
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
When eighteen-year-old Gloria Summers dies unexpectedly after undergoing an elective tubal ligation at Detroits Henry Ford Hospital, the mortality review committee cant determine what went wrong. But three more unexplained deaths of young women sends the hospital administration reeling. Desperate...
Skeletal Trauma Analysis
Case Studies in Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
In the post-Daubert era, forensic science disciplines are increasingly informed by robust, statistically-sound experimental research. The educational value of the well-documented case study, however, remains as important as ever. Emphasizing known contextual information, this volume serves as a case-driven...
Taphonomy of Human Remains
Forensic Analysis of the Dead and the Depositional Environment
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
A truly interdisciplinary approach to this core subject within Forensic Science
Combines essential theory with practical crime scene work
Includes case studies
Applicable to all time periods so has relevance for conventional archaeology, prehistory and anthropology
Combines points of view from both established practitioners and young researchers to ensure relevance
Digital Forensics for the Health Sciences
Applications in Practice and Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Digital forensics deals with the acquisition, preservation, analysis and presentation of electronic data. The detailed documentation and analysis of human data with 3D-imaging and processing techniques has led to qualitative improvements in forensic pathologic investigation and documentation. Digital...
Handbook of Drug Interactions
A Clinical and Forensic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
A concise compilation of the known interactions of the most commonly prescribed drugs, as well as their interaction with nonprescription compounds. The agents covered include CNS drugs, cardiovascular drugs, antibiotics, and NSAIDs. For each class of drugs the authors review the pharmacology, pharmacodynamics,...
Expert Report Writing in Toxicology
Forensic, Scientific and Legal Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Every year throughout the world, individuals' health is damaged by their exposure to toxic chemicals at work. In most cases these problems will resolve, but many will sustain permanent damage. Whilst any justified claim for compensation requires medical and legal evidence a crucial and often controversial...
Malpractice and Medical Liability
European State of the Art and Guidelines
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Medical responsibility lawsuits have become a fact of life in every physician’s medical practice. However, there is evidence that physicians are increasingly practising defensive medicine, ordering more tests than may be necessary and avoiding patients with complicated conditions. The modern practice...
by O. Ayalon, E. Deutsch, B.M. Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Medicolegal Library is the first and only series of its kind. Its importance is self-evident. During the last decade, science, especial ly medical practice, has become an increasingly complex undertak ing. Recent dramatic developments in medicine have given rise to both theoretical controversies...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Medicolegal Library is the first and only series of its kind. Its importance is self-evident. During the last decade, science, especial ly medical practice, has become an increasingly complex undertak ing. Recent dramatic developments in medicine have given rise to both theoretical controversies...