Forensic Pharmacology
Medicines, Mayhem, and Malpractice
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 21 December 1995
- Number of Volumes laminated boards
- ISBN 9780198548263
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 247x172x18 mm
- Weight 595 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures and tables 0
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Short description:
Forensic Pharmacology, written for doctors and lawyers, is a clear guide to using pharmacology to solve legal problems in many different fields, including drunken driving, murder, drug-induced amnesia (memory loss), negligence, and adverse reactions to drugs.
MoreLong description:
Forensic Pharmacology offers a unique and comprehensible account of pharmacological methods and knowledge, and how to use them to solve problems in crimes from drunken driving to murder. It also deals with negligence in giving drugs, and adverse reactions to drugs. The text is enlivened by cases from the literature and from the authors' experience. Appendices give detailed examples of pharmacological problems and their solutions; tables and equations for alcohol calculations; and data for medicines encountered in forensic work.
Experts do not always understand what lawyers want of them, and lawyers fail to appreciate that experts in medicine and pharmacology may not be experts in the law. The section entitled 'legal considerations' was written by a barrister with wide experience of using expert evidence and explains clearly the legal principles. It also contains some helpful hints on how to deal with court procedure and adversarial lawyers.
constitutes an original but useful contribution in the vast domain of the legal medicine ... Doctor Ferner's book is an essential guide ... Due to the importance of the subjects, the clarity of the text illustrated by numerous examples from the literature and the author's experience, the book will without doubt meet the expectations of a wide range of readers ... An extensive bibliography and an index are included, which make this book a very helpful guide in the field of pharmacology applied to forensic medicine.
Table of Contents:
Part 1: General considerations
Drugs, their behaviour and their effects on the body
Analyses of drugs and drug concentrations in blood and other body compartments
Legal considerations
Part 2: Specific problems
Effects of drugs on behaviour
Effects of drugs on the victims of crime
Negligence and medicines
Part 3: Specific drugs of forensic importance
Ethanol
Benzodiazepines
Insulin
Potassium chloride and other potassium salts
The antipsychotic drugs: phenothiazines, butyrophenones, and other agents
Opiates and related drugs
Vaccines
Paracetemol
Anabolic androgens (anabolic steroids)
Appendix A Pharmacokinetic calculations
Appendix B Detailed aspects of measurement of ethanol and calculations based on ethanol concentration
Appendix C Brief details of some drugs of forensic importance
References
Index
