Contents
1 Principles of forensic practice 1
2 The ethics of medical practice 13
3 Medicolegal aspects of death 30
4 Violence in society, medicolegal investigation
of death and the autopsy 40
5 The appearance of the body after death 55
6 Death from natural causes 69
7 Deaths and injury in infancy 83
8 Assessment, classification and documentation of injury 105
9 Ballistic injuries 133
10 Regional injuries and patterns of injury 149
11 Pressure to the neck and asphyxia deaths 162
12 Heat, cold and electrical
trauma 177
13 Immersion and drowning 191
14 Identification of the living and the dead 198
15 Restraint and control techniques 208
16 Police custodial healthcare 217
17 Sexual assault, genitoanal injury and female genital mutilation 229
18 Safeguarding and protection of children and vulnerable adults 244
19 Transportation medicine 257
20 Torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment 271
21 Principles of forensic science and crime scene investigation 276
22 Principles of toxicology 295
23 Alcohol 302
24 Licit and illicit drugs 307
25 Medicinal poisons 321
26 Miscellaneous poisons 325
Index 333
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