Textbook of forensic medicine and toxicology / Nageshkumar G. Rao

Expanded, revamped and completely revised with recent advances and current developments. Includes five major parts with 40 concise chapters as well as appendices and index covering over 600 pages. Contains around 700 excellent original coloured photographs and over 500 plain drawings, charts, tables and boxes. Front Matter Cover Contributors Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Contents PART I: INTRODUCTION AND EVOLUTION 1. Introduction 2. Historical Perspective PART II: MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE 3. Doctor and the Law 4. Ethics of Medical Practice 5. Euthanasia (Mercy Killing) 6. Consumer Protection Act and Medical Profession 7. Human Organ Transplantation Legal and Ethical Asp 8. Ethical and Legal Aspects of AIDS 9. Medical Records 10. Medical and Legal Aspects of Anaesthetic and Oper PART III: FORENSIC PATHOLOGY 11. Forensic Identity 12. Forensic DNA Profiling 13. Thanatology 14. Postmortem Examination 15. Violent Asphyxial Death PART IV: CLINICAL FORENSIC MEDICINE 16. Trauma, Injury and Wound 17. Regional Injuries 18. Transportation Injuries 19. Effects of Injury 20. Firearms and Explosive Injuries 21. Effects of Cold and Heat 22. Electrocution, Lightning and Radiation 23. Trauma in its Medicolegal View Points 24. Domestic Violence-Medical and Legal Aspects 25. Torture and Medical Profession 26. Sexual Jurisprudence 27. Infanticide, Foeticides and Child Abuse 28. Forensic Psychiatry 29. Forensic Radiology 30. Forensic Engineering PART V: FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY 31. General Principles 32. Corrosive Poisons 33. Irritant Poisons 34. Neurotoxics 35. Cardiac Poisons 36. Asphyxiants 37. Domestic Poisons 38. Poisoning by Therapeutic Substances 39. Food Poisoning and Poisonous Foods 40. Drug Dependence and Drug Abuse Appendices Index Textbook of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology. The book has very useful information for the medical and law students, and for the practising physicians and legal professionals. Innumerable references cited in each chapter construe the scientific base for the book. The book also includes worthy appendices at the end, comprising of question bank providing theory and viva-voce questionnaires, varsity examination methodology and suggested syllabus in both theory and practical examinations. Gives a complete coverage of examining, reporting and writing opinions for a variety of medicolegal cases. It also furnishes a clear coverage of diagnosis, management and prevention of an entire spectrum of medicolegal problems. It is well structured with separate sections dealing with each and every aspect in detail. Topics such as Introduction and Evolution, Forensic Histopathology, Forensic Aspects of Clinical Pathology, Embalming, Ideal Mortuary, Varsity Examination Methodology, OSPE, Forensic Toxicology, Clinical Forensic Medicine, Medical Jurisprudence, etc. are new to this edition, while other topics have been revised drastically Keeping the academically strong content and much appreciated way of imparting information intact, this edition has been revamped and revised to update the topics and information