ABSTRACT

Prestigious and authoritative, this fully updated fourteenth edition of Simpson's Forensic Medicine remains a classic; one of the world's leading introductory texts in the field of forensic medicine. It presents all that the generalist or student needs to know about the interface between medicine and the law.

chapter 1|12 pages

Principles of forensic practice

chapter 2|17 pages

The ethics of medical practice

chapter 3|10 pages

Medicolegal aspects of death

chapter 5|14 pages

The appearance of the body after death

chapter 6|14 pages

Death from natural causes

chapter 7|22 pages

Deaths and injury in infancy

chapter 9|16 pages

Ballistic injuries

chapter 10|13 pages

Regional injuries and patterns of injury

chapter 11|15 pages

Pressure to the neck and asphyxia deaths

chapter 12|14 pages

Heat, cold and electrical trauma

chapter 13|7 pages

Immersion and drowning

chapter 14|10 pages

Identification of the living and the dead

chapter 15|9 pages

Restraint and control techniques

chapter 16|12 pages

Police custodial healthcare

chapter 19|24 pages

Transportation medicine

chapter 22|7 pages

Principles of toxicology

chapter 23|5 pages

Alcohol

chapter 24|14 pages

Licit and illicit drugs

chapter 25|4 pages

Medicinal poisons

chapter 26|7 pages

Miscellaneous poisons