Have You See This Man?

✍ Scribed by Angus Maclean

• Book ID: 104119301
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 65 KB
• Volume: 21
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-7368
• DOI: 10.1016/s0015-7368(81)71374-4

✦ Synopsis

This book is an edited record of the Proceedings of the European Meeting of the International Association of Forensic Toxicologists held in Glasgow, Scotland in 1979. As might be expected of such a publication there is a wide range in the standard of papers included. The areas covered include critical assessments of analytical systems usually employing TLC, GLC, MS and HPLC with a view to rationalising an approach to the identification of the general unknown poison. The detailed development of assays for specific drugs, employing largely chromatographic procedures, is also reported, while an assessment of the practicalities of various extraction procedures is highlighted. The value of immunological tests (EMIT, RIA) in routine screening for drugs is also described. The volume is largely an expression of the application of recent developments in toxicology and exposes the areas of weakness particularly in respect of interpretation of analytical results.

The book is very well presented for a volume of this type and credit should be given to the editor and publishers. In these days of spiralling costs it is amazing that the price of the book has been kept at such a level. In conclusion this book can be recommended for the overview of toxicology which it describes and for its ability to offer to the researcher a ready reference source for specific areas of investigation.

BRIAN CADDY HAVE YOU SEE THIS MAN?