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Description
This treatise is designed to provide a brief and essentially practical guide to current teaching in Forensic Medicine with particular reference to India. The subject matter has been dealt with concisely, which is easy to grasp and simplified in presentation, and wherever necessary illustrations, tables and points have been inserted to help the students. The aim is to provide reasonable coverage of the subject as a whole. An attempt has been made to maintain the practical character of the book. I hope the reader will find it of immense help maintain. Reader dealing with find it of immense help while dealing with any medico-legal case. Over and above, the book has been entirely revised and special additions and alterations have also been made and the overall text brought up-to-date.
The Medical Officers should be actually and sensibly aware of the rationale underlying the various facets of their professional responsibilities and duties.
It is important that the doctor should have a clear idea of what he may be reasonably expected to be able to do in any contingency, and what facts and opinions he may be expected to give. We express the hope that the book will serve admirably for the prosecuting and defending lawyers in preparation for trial, as a guide in cross-examination, in the evaluation of testimony and demonstrative evidence.
The physical pathology of trauma alters little over the years, but academic and practical approaches to the subject do evolve. Accordingly, I have attempted to introduce new ideas. It is said that the proof of the pudding lies in the eating. The popularity of the previous editions of this title prompted the publication of this education. It is hoped that this edition will be warmly welcome just like the previous editions of this treatise.
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Contents
1. Introduction
2. Legal Procedure
3. Medical Law and Ethics
4. Consumer Protection Act (CPA/COPRA) 1986
5. The Workmen
6. The Factories Act (No. 63 of 1948)
7. Human anatomy and Physiology
8. Identificatioin
9. Midico-legal Autopsy
10. Death and its Cause
11. Post-mortem Changes
12. Embalming
13. Mechanical Injuries
14. Regional Injuries
15. Medico-Legal Aspects of Wounds
16. Torture
17. Systemic Response to Trauma
18. Postmortem Injuries
19. Examination of the Living
20. Wound certificate
21. Estimatioin of Age
22. Anaesthetic and Operative Deaths
23. Thermal Deaths
24. Dowry Deaths
25. Medico-legal Masquerades
26. Starvation
27. Mechanical Asphyxia
28. Importance and Sterility
29. Virginity, Pregnancy and Delivery
30. Sexual Offences
31. Abortion
32. Infant Deaths
33. Blood Stains
34. DNA Fingerprinting
35. Forensic Psychiatry
36. Artefacts
37. Forensic Science Laboratory
Section II
38. General Considerations
39. Agricultural Poisons
40. Corrosive Poisons
41. Metallic Poisons
42. Inorganic Irritant Poisons
43. Organic Irritant Poisons
44. CNS Depressants
45. Psychotropic Drugs
46. Miscellaneous Poisons
47. Deliriant Poisons
48. Drug Dependence and abuse
49. Spinal Poisons
50. Cardiac poisons
51. Asphyxiants
52. Food Poisons
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