Simpson's Forensic Medicine by Payne-James, Jason; Jones, Richard Martin;

Short description:

Simpson's Forensic Medicine 15e contains all that the generalist or student needs to know about the interface between medicine and the law. It's reputation as one of the world's leading introductory texts in the field of forensic medicine reflects the easy to read and informative text, complemented by numerous colour photographs.

Long description:

The Fifteenth Edition of Simpson's Forensic Medicine provides an overview of all that is relevant in practice at the interface between medicine and law. Its long-standing reputation as one of the world's leading introductory texts in the field of forensic & legal medicine is reflected by easy-to-read and informative text, complemented by numerous colour images, tables and figures.

Identifying current forensic & legal medicine practice, the comprehensive coverage encompasses all aspects of forensic pathology, clinical forensic medicine, legal medicine and highlights contemporary topics such as non-fatal strangulation, deaths in custody, safeguarding, intimate-partner violence as well as subjects such as asphyxial deaths, the impact of heat, cold and electrical trauma and immersion and drowning.

Forensic & legal medicine is intimately involved with the criminal and civil justice systems including family law. Forensic & legal medicine and forensic science are closely linked and for all those whose work brings them into contact with such subjects, Simpson’s provides an immediate source of accessible knowledge. Students and practitioners in such settings can understand how their area of work or study interrelates and interacts with others in different settings. Simpson's is, therefore, a textbook of choice for those studying forensic & legal medicine or forensic science, and for forensic practitioners, law students, law enforcement personnel, healthcare professionals and judges, coroners and other legal professionals.

Table of Contents:

Medicine, Science and the Law

1 Principles of forensic practice     

2 The ethics of medical practice

3 Medicolegal aspects of death

 Forensic Pathology

4 Violence in society, medicolegal investigation of death and the autopsy

5 The appearance of the body after death                                                                             

6 Death from natural causes                                                                                                  

7 Deaths and injury in infancy                                                                                

 The pathology of trauma

8 Assessment, classification and documentation of injury                                     

9 Ballistic injuries                                                                                    

10 Regional injuries and patterns of injury                                              

 Common topics in forensic pathology

11 Pressure to the neck & asphyxia deaths   

12 Heat, cold & electrical trauma                 

13 Immersion and drowning                         

 Clinical Forensic Medicine

14 Identification of the living and the dead   

15 Restraint and control techniques              

16 Police custodial healthcare        

17 Sexual assault and genitoanal injury and female genital mutilation

18 Safeguarding and protection of children and vulnerable adults

19 Transportation medicine

20 Torture, and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment

21 Principles of forensic science and crime scene investigation

22 Principles of toxicology

23 Alcohol (ethanol)         

24 Licit and illicit drugs   

25 Medicinal poisons and miscellaneous poisons

26 Miscellaneous poisons