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A medicolegal textbook by Vincent (pathology, U. of Texas-San Antonio), the Chief Medical Examiner for a Texas county, and Dominick, retired Chief Medical Examiner of New York City. They begin with an overview of the specialty that recognizes and interprets diseases and injuries in the human body for legal investigations. Then they consider such topics as the time of death, blunt trauma wounds, craniocerebral injuries, and airplane crashes. No date is noted for the first edition; the second has updated statistics and new chapters on deaths in nursing homes and sudden deaths during or immediately after a violent struggle unassociated with an anatomical cause of death.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Book Description
Medicolegal investigation of death is the most crucial and significant function of the medical examiner within the criminal justice system. The medical examiner is primarily concerned with violent, sudden, unexpected, and suspicious deaths and is responsible for determining the cause and manner of death, identifying the deceased, determining the approximate time of death and injury, collecting evidence from the body, issuing the death certificate, and documenting these events through an official autopsy report. The basis of the medicolegal investigation is forensic pathology.Written for both medical and investigative professionals, Forensic Pathology, Second Edition presents an overview of medicolegal investigative systems. Completely updated, the book examines investigative techniques and procedures that lead to obtaining accurate conclusions of death by homicide, accident, or suicide.


Book Info
Practical, hands-on experience in the essentials of forensic medicine. Based on the personal experience of two nationally renowned experts in their fields. Includes graphic and descriptive photographs throughout. Previous edition: c1993. DNLM: Forensic Medicine.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Medicolegal investigation of death is the most crucial and significant function of the medical examiner within the criminal justice system. The medical examiner is primarily concerned with violent, sudden, unexpected, and suspicious deaths and is responsible for determining the cause and manner of death, identifying the deceased, determining the approximate time of death and injury, collecting evidence from the body, issuing the death certificate, and documenting these events through an official autopsy report. The basis of the medicolegal investigation is forensic pathology.Written for both medical and investigative professionals, Forensic Pathology, Second Edition presents an overview of medicolegal investigative systems. Completely updated, the book examines investigative techniques and procedures that lead to obtaining accurate conclusions of death by homicide, accident, or suicide.

SYNOPSIS

A medicolegal textbook by Vincent (pathology, U. of Texas-San Antonio), the Chief Medical Examiner for a Texas county, and Dominick, retired Chief Medical Examiner of New York City. They begin with an overview of the specialty that recognizes and interprets diseases and injuries in the human body for legal investigations. Then they consider such topics as the time of death, blunt trauma wounds, craniocerebral injuries, and airplane crashes. No date is noted for the first edition; the second has updated statistics and new chapters on deaths in nursing homes and sudden deaths during or immediately after a violent struggle unassociated with an anatomical cause of death.