Research Catalog

Title

Forensic medicine for lawyers / J.K. Mason, with chapters by A.T. Proudfoot, J.S. Oliver, Derek Chiswick.

Author

Mason, J. K. (John Kenyon)

Publication

London : Butterworths, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Chiswick, E. (Derek)
• Oliver, John S.
• Proudfoot, A. T. (Alexander Thompson)

Description

xxxvi, 539 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Medical jurisprudence > Great Britain
• Medical jurisprudence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Some terms used in medical evidence -- 1. Some aspects of applied anatomy and physiology -- 2. Comparative medico-legal systems -- 3. Identification of the dead and of remains -- 4. Post-mortem changes and the timing of death -- 5. Legal disposal of the dead -- 6. The spread of communicable disease: some aspects of public health -- 7. Sudden natural death -- 8. Wounding -- 9. Injury and death due to firearms and explosives -- 10. Accidental injury and death due to deceleration and acceleration -- 11. Head injury -- 12. The transplantation of organs -- 13. Asphyxia -- 14. Fire, water, heat, cold, and neglect -- 15. Industrial injury and disease -- 16. Medico-legal aspects of sport -- 17. Medico-legal aspects of marriage and pregnancy -- 18. Elementary genetics and testing for parentage -- 19. Unnatural death of the fetus and the newborn: abortion, child destruction and infanticide or child murder -- 20. Injury and death in infancy and childhood.

ISBN

0406049998

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library