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.
About the Author
Professor Jason Payne-James, LLM, MSc, FFFLM, FRCS, FRCP, FCSFS, RCPathME, FFCFM(RCPA), DFM, LBIPP, Mediator Specialist in Forensic & Legal Medicine & Consultant Forensic Physician
Honorary Clinical Professor, William Harvey Research Institute Queen Mary University of London
Consultant Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Forensic & Legal Medicine
Lead Medical Examiner, Norfolk & Norwich Hospital University NHS Trust, Norwich
Director, Forensic Health Services Ltd, Southminster, United Kingdom
Richard Jones, BSc(Hons), MBBS, PgCUTL, FRCPath, FHEA,
MCIEH, MFFLM, MRSPH Clinical Senior Lecturer in Forensic Pathology
Wales Institute of Forensic Medicine
Cardiff University School of Medicine
College of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Cardiff
Home Office-Registered Forensic Pathologist,
Honorary Consultant Forensic Pathologist Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Author(s): Jason Payne-James, Richard Martin Jones
Edition: 14
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2019
Language: English
Commentary: TRUE PDF
Tags: Forensic Medicine; Pathology; Forensic Science; Legal Medicine
Cover
Half Title
Endorsement
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
About the authors
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Principles of forensic practice
Introduction
Legal systems
Doctors and other healthcare professionals and the law
Evidence for courts
Healthcare professionals as witnesses in court
Bibliography and information sources
Further general resources
2. The ethics of medical practice
Introduction
Basis of medical ethics
International codes of medical ethics
Duties of doctors and other healthcare professionals: UK perspective
Medical ethics in practice
Confidentiality
Consent
Regulation of doctors and other professionals
Bibliography and information resources
Further general resources
3. Medicolegal aspects of death
Introduction
Prolonged disorders of consciousness
Tissue and organ transplantation
Cause of death determination and certification
Bibliography and information sources
Further general resources
4. Violence in society, medicolegal investigation of death and the autopsy
Introduction
Homicide and interpersonal violence
Medicolegal investigation of death
The autopsy
The ‘Minnesota protocol’
Exhumation
Bibliography and information sources
Further general resources
5. The appearance of the body after death
Introduction
The early post mortem interval
Other post mortem changes
Estimation of the post mortem interval
Biblography and information sources
Further general resources
6. Death from natural causes
Introduction
Cardiovascular system
Respiratory system
Gastrointestinal system
Gynaecological conditions
Deaths from asthma and epilepsy
Bibliography and information sources
7. Deaths and injury in infancy
Introduction
Stillbirths
Infanticide
The estimation of maturity of a newborn baby or fetus
Child abuse
Child sexual abuse
Bibliography and information sources
Further general resources
8. Assessment, classification and documentation of injury
Introduction
Terminology of injury
Injury and the law
Non-fatal violence-related injury in England and Wales
Types of injury
Survival after injury
Mechanisms of death following trauma
Self-inflicted injury
Torture
Documentation of injury or marks of injury
Bibliography and information sources
Further general resources
9. Ballistic injuries
Introduction
Types of firearms
Firearms injuries
Air weapons, unusual projectiles and other weapons
Determination of accident, suicide or murder
Evidence recovery
Blast injuries
Mass disasters
Bibliography and information sources
Further general resources
10. Regional injuries and patterns of injury
Introduction
Head injuries
Neck injuries
Spinal injuries
Chest injuries
Abdomen
Bibliography and information sources
Further general resources
11. Pressure to the neck and asphyxia deaths
Introduction
Classification of asphyxia
Phases and signs of ‘asphyxia’
Types of mechanical asphyxial mechanisms
Obstruction or occlusion of the airways
Pressure to the chest or abdomen
Bibliography and information sources
Further general resources
12. Heat, cold and electrical trauma
Introduction
Injury caused by heat
Cold injury (hypothermia)
Electrical injury
Bibliography and information sources
Further general resources
13. Immersion and drowning
Introduction
Evidence of immersion
Post mortem artefact and immersion
Pathological diagnosis of drowning
Alternative mechanisms of death in immersion
The role of alcohol and drugs in drowning
Other investigations in bodies recovered from water
Bibliography and information sources
Further general resources
14. Identification of the living and the dead
Introduction
Methods of identification
Identity of decomposed or skeletalised remains
Mass disasters
Age estimation in the living
Bibliography and information sources
Further general resources
15. Restraint and control techniques
Use of force
Conflict resolution
‘Empty hands’: unarmed restraint
Handcuffs
Batons
Irritant sprays
Impact rounds
Dogs
Conducted energy devices
Bibliography and information sources
16. Police custodial healthcare
Introduction
Principles of care
Healthcare in police custody
Risk assessment, risk identification and diversion
Deaths and harm in police custody
Prevention of death and harm in police custody
Bibliography and information sources
Further general resources
17. Sexual assault, genitoanal injury and female genital mutilation
Introduction
Examination requirements
Definitions and the law
Intimate partner violence
Medical assessment
Evidential samples and documentation of findings
Medical findings after sexual contact
Care after sexual assault
Female genital mutilation
Bibliography and information sources
Further general resources
18. Safeguarding and protection of children and vulnerable adults
Introduction
Child abuse and neglect
Definitions
Legislation in England & Wales
Safeguarding children and young people
Physical abuse
Sexual abuse
Neglect and emotional abuse
Fabricated or induced illness in children
Management of child abuse
Safeguarding vulnerable adults
Elder abuse
Bibliography and information sources
Further general resources
19. Transportation medicine
Introduction
Transportation law
Transportation ‘under the influence’
Personal transport and road traffic injuries
Train and railway injuries
Aviation incident-related injury and fatalities
Marine fatalities
Bibliography and information sources
20. Torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
Introduction
Definitions
Investigation
The Istanbul Protocol
Bibliography and information sources
Further general resources
21. Principles of forensic science and crime scene investigation
What is forensic science?
Locard’s exchange principle
Scene examination
Evidence recovery
Chain of custody
Sample analysis
Blood pattern analysis
Damage assessment
Fingerprints
Footwear
Trace evidence
Bibliography and information sources
22. Principles of toxicology
Introduction
Principles
Definitions
Testing matrices
Specific testing matrices
Interpretation
Bibliography and information sources
23. Alcohol
Ethanol sources and concentrations
Ethanol metabolism
Elimination of alcohol
Ethanol measurement
Clinical effects of alcohol
Post mortem considerations
Bibliography and information sources
24. Licit and illicit drugs
Harm reduction
Legal status of drugs
Commonly misused drugs
Drug facilitated sexual assault
Bibliography and information sources
25. Medicinal poisons
Introduction
Serotonin syndrome
QT interval prolongation (long QT syndrome)
Drugs with unique modes of action
Bibliography and information sources
26. Miscellaneous poisons
Arsenic
Carbon monoxide
Cyanide
Lead
Methanol
Bibliography and information sources
Index
