Clinical Forensic Medicine: A Physician’s Guide

✍ Scribed by Jason Payne-James LLM, MB, FRCS, DFM, RNutr (auth.), Margaret M. Stark LLM, MB, BS, DGM, DMJ, DAB (eds.)

Publisher: Humana Press
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 446
Series: Forensic Science and Medicine
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This revised edition of a much praised survey of the fundamental principles of clinical forensic medicine has been completely updated and expanded to address the latest developments and professional concerns. There are new chapters on the medical aspects of police restraint, including injuries that may occur with handcuffs and truncheons, the use of crowd-control agents, substance misuse problems in custody, and the management of bites, head injuries, and self-inflicted wounds. Additional new material can be found on the potential of police exposure to infection, the role of alcohol and drugs in vehicular accidents, and forensic sampling in sexual assault examinations. The chapters on fundamental principles, nonaccidental injury in children, and the care of detainees are all fully revised, as are the appendices (now containing a list of useful websites).
Authoritative and up-to-date, Clinical Forensic Medicine: A Physician's Guide, Second Edition offers forensic specialists and allied professionals a reliable guide to good practices and procedures for every variety of police inquiry requiring clinical forensic investigation.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
History and Development of Clinical Forensic Medicine....Pages 1-36
Fundamental Principles....Pages 37-60
Sexual Assault Examination....Pages 61-126
Injury Assessment, Documentation, and Interpretation....Pages 127-158
Nonaccidental Injury in Children....Pages 159-177
Crowd-Control Agents....Pages 179-193
Medical Issues Relevant to Restraint....Pages 195-204
Care of Detainees....Pages 205-234
Infectious Diseases....Pages 235-283
Substance Misuse....Pages 285-326
Deaths in Custody....Pages 327-350
Traffic Medicine....Pages 351-385
Back Matter....Pages 387-438

✦ Subjects

Forensic Medicine

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