Forensic Medicine for Lawyers Book

	Preface to the Third Edition
	Preface to the First Edition
	Table of statutes
	Table of cases
	Introduction: Some terms used in medical evidence	1
1	Some aspects of applied anatomy and physiology	5
2	Comparative medico-legal systems	32
3	Identification of the dead and of remains	46
4	Post-mortem changes and the timing of death	56
5	Legal disposal of the dead	67
6	The spread of communicable disease: some aspects of public health	84
7	Sudden natural death	98
8	Wounding	109
9	Injury and death due to firearms and explosives	122
10	Accidental injury and death due to deceleration and acceleration	133
11	Head injury	151
12	The transplantation of organs	162
13	Asphyxia	173
14	Fire, water, heat, cold, and neglect	190
15	Industrial injury and disease	206
16	Medico-legal aspects of sport	216
17	Medico-legal aspects of marriage and pregnancy	227
18	Elementary genetics and testing for parentage	243
19	Unnatural death of the fetus and the newborn: abortion, child destruction and infanticide or child murder	258
20	Injury and death in infancy and childhood	277
21	Sexual offences	292
22	Poisons and poisoning	307
23	The law relating to drugs and poisons	324
24	Drug addiction	332
25	Medico-legal aspects of alcohol	351
26	Forensic toxicology	368
27	Radiology in forensic medicine	378
28	Forensic psychiatry	391
29	Forensic odontology	420
30	Legal aspects of medical practice	433
31	Deaths associated with medical and surgical care	458
	Appendix A: A guide to medical terminology	478
	Appendix B: Registrar's duty to report deaths to the coroner	481
	Appendix C: Duty of the doctor to report deaths to the coroner	482
	Appendix D: Conclusions of the jury/coroner as to the death	484
	Appendix E: Deaths reportable to the procurator fiscal	485
	Appendix F: Deaths reportable after investigation by the procurator fiscal to the Crown Office	486
	Appendix G: Approximate times of appearance of some centres of ossification	487
	Appendix H: Union of epiphyses	489
	Appendix I: Control of infectious diseases in England and Wales	490
	Appendix J: Notification of infectious disease in Scotland	492
	Appendix K: Prescribed diseases	493
	Appendix L: Occupations for which pneumoconiosis is prescribed	505
	Appendix M: Diseases reportable to the Health and Safety Executive	507
	Appendix N: Form of consent for amniocentesis	509
	Appendix O: Noxious or offensive substances	510
	Appendix P: Some useful equivalents of weight, capacity, length and temperature	512
	Appendix Q: Some medical and dental qualifications in the United Kingdom	514
	Appendix R: Report to procurator fiscal of death under medical care	517
	Appendix S: Notes on the International System of Units (SI Units)	519
	Appendix T: Weights of the organs	521
	Appendix U: Therapeutic and toxic concentrations of some commonly used drugs	522
	Index	525