Payne-James J. Simpson's Forensic Medicine 14ed 2020

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Prestigious and authoritative, this fully updated fourteenth edition of Simpson's Forensic Medicine remains a classic; one of the world's leading introductory texts in the field of forensic medicine. It presents all that the generalist or student needs to know about the interface between medicine and the law.
Principles of forensic practice
The ethics of medical practice
Medicolegal aspects of death
Violence in society, medicolegal investigation of death and the autopsy
The appearance of the body after death
Death from natural causes
Deaths and injury in infancy
Assessment, classification and documentation of injury
Ballistic injuries
Regional injuries and patterns of injury
Pressure to the neck and asphyxia deaths Heat, cold and electrical trauma Immersion and drowning
Identification of the living and the dead
Restraint and control techniques
Police custodial healthcare Sexual assault, genitoanal injury and female genital mutilation
Safeguarding and protection of children and vulnerable adults
Transportation medicine
Torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
Principles of forensic science and crime scene investigation
Principles of toxicology
Alcohol
Licit and illicit drugs
Medicinal poisons
Miscellaneous poisons