Essential Forensic Medicine (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York, 2020
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Paperback. Provides an invaluable distillation of key topics in forensic medicine for undergraduate, masters, and postgraduate students Essential Forensic Medicine covers the broad area of the forensic medical sciences, delivering core knowledge in the biomedical sciences, and the law and ethics surrounding them. Concise, accessible chapters cover a wide range of topics from basic forensic identification and examination techniques to forensic toxicology and psychiatry. Written by internationally-recognized experts in the field, this authoritative guide offers complete chapter coverage of the legal system, courts, and witnesses; investigation of the deceased and their lawful disposal; and the duties of a registered medical practitioner and the General Medical Council. It instructs readers on the general principles of scene examination and the medico-legal autopsy including how to interpret the many kinds of injuries one can sufferincluding those from blunt impact and sharp force, firearms and explosives, asphyxia and drowning. Further chapters cover sexual offences, child abuse, and using DNA in human identification, mental health, alcohol and drug abuse. A fresh, accessible, up to date textbook on forensic medicineWritten by a well-known experts with decades of experience in the fieldIncludes numerous figures and tables, and detailed lists of key informationFeatures numerous case studies to reinforce key concepts and ideas explored within the bookHelps students to prepare for examinations and enables practitioners to broaden their understanding of the discipline Part of the Essential Forensic Science series, Essential Forensic Medicine is a highly useful guide for advanced undergraduate students, masters students, and new practitioners to the field. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …
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- Title
- Essential Forensic Medicine (Paperback)
- Author
- Peter Vanezis
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 047074863X
- ISBN 13
- 9780470748633
Provides an invaluable distillation of key topics in forensic medicine for undergraduate, masters, and postgraduate students
Essential Forensic Medicine covers the broad area of the forensic medical sciences, delivering core knowledge in the biomedical sciences, and the law and ethics surrounding them. Concise, accessible chapters cover a wide range of topics from basic forensic identification and examination techniques to forensic toxicology and psychiatry.
Written by internationally-recognized experts in the field, this authoritative guide offers complete chapter coverage of the legal system, courts, and witnesses; investigation of the deceased and their lawful disposal; and the duties of a registered medical practitioner and the General Medical Council. It instructs readers on the general principles of scene examination and the medico-legal autopsy including how to interpret the many kinds of injuries one can suffer―including those from blunt impact and sharp force, firearms and explosives, asphyxia and drowning. Further chapters cover sexual offences, child abuse, and using DNA in human identification, mental health, alcohol and drug abuse.
- A fresh, accessible, up to date textbook on forensic medicine
- Written by a well-known experts with decades of experience in the field
- Includes numerous figures and tables, and detailed lists of key information
- Features numerous case studies to reinforce key concepts and ideas explored within the book
- Helps students to prepare for examinations and enables practitioners to broaden their understanding of the discipline
Part of the “Essential Forensic Science” series, Essential Forensic Medicine is a highly useful guide for advanced undergraduate students, master’s students, and new practitioners to the field.
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About the Author
Peter Vanezis, MB, ChB, MD, PhD, FRCPath, FRCP (Glasg.), FFLM, FCSFS, FAFMS (UK), DMJ (Path), He has been Professor of Forensic Medical Sciences and Director of the Cameron Forensic Medical Sciences at Barts and the London (Queen Mary University of London) since 2006 (now Emeritus). He was formerly Regius Professor of Forensic Medicine and Science at the University of Glasgow. He is a Fellow of The Royal College of Pathologists, Fellow of Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow, Fellow of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine and Fellow of the Chartered Society of Forensic Scientists. Peter Vanezis was awarded an OBE in June 2001, for Forensic Pathology Services in Kosovo.
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