Mason's Forensic Medicine for Lawyers, 5th edition

Medical Law

Mason's Forensic Medicine for Lawyers, 5th Edition

Edited by Dr Sharon Cowan · Dr A C Hunt
Bloomsbury Professional (formerly Tottel Publishing) February 2008

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781845922412
Publisher
Bloomsbury Professional (formerly Tottel Publishing)
Publication
February 2008
Format
Paperback , 672 pages
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Mason's Forensic Medicine for Lawyers, 5th edition comprehensively covers all aspects of the relationship between forensic medicine and law. Providing you with detailed medico-legal knowledge, this book will enable you to authoritatively evaluate and question expert medical and forensic scientific witnesses.

This new fifth edition details the medical and legal considerations that must be faced by forensic pathologists, from the point of reporting a death to investigating and diagnosing the cause of death. It examines forensic issues relating to non-lethal violence, mental health and public health, and also gives consideration to general issues relating to medical ethics, negligence, and the regulation of the medical profession.

All relevant legislation and case law covered

Every chapter has been revised and updated to cover the numerous legislative changes and case law developments since the last edition, including:
  • Human Rights Act 1998
  • Sexual Offences Act 2003
  • Human Tissue Act 2004 and Human Tissue (Scotland) Act 2006, and their impact upon the system of disposing of bodies, and on transplantation of organs
  • Gender Recognition Act 2004
  • Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2001, Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 and Mental Capacity Act 2005, Mental Health Act 2007
  • The cases of Sally Clarke and Angela Cannings, which prompted a rethink of aspects of child deaths
  • The impact of the Shipman Inquiry
  • New proposals relating to the reporting of death and the coroners system more generally
Important new content

Additional new material covers:
  • The criminal law's regulation of bodily harm occurring through the transmission of HIV
  • The law of evidence, particularly relating to the retention of DNA samples
  • Drug misuse
  • Assisted reproduction, protection of children and family law
  • The problems of death in infancy
  • Radiology - modern imaging techniques and their application
  • Asphyxia, with an emphasis on the difficulties involved in diagnosis and mechanisms of death
  • Controversial aspects of deaths occurring during restraint
An essential addition to your bookshelf

By consulting this book, lawyers in both civil and criminal cases will be in a position not only to understand medical and forensic science witnesses, but also to evaluate and question their evidence from a position of strength. Expert witnesses consulting it will be able to appreciate the legal implication of their findings and opinions.

Table of Contents

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Some aspects of applied anatomy and physiology
  3. Comparative medico-legal systems
  4. Identification of the dead and of remains
  5. Post-mortem changes and the timing of death
  6. Legal disposal of the dead
  7. The spread of communicable disease: come aspects of public health
  8. Sudden natural death
  9. Wounding
  10. Injury and death due to firearms and explosives
  11. Accidental injury and death due to deceleration and acceleration
  12. Head injury
  13. The transplantation of organs
  14. Asphyxia and allied conditions
  15. Fire, water, heat, cold and neglect
  16. Industrial injury and disease
  17. Medico-legal aspects of sport
  18. Medico-legal aspects of marriage and
    pregnancy
  19. Unnatural death of the fetus and the newborn: abortion, child destruction and
    infanticide or child murder
  20. Injury and death in infancy and childhood
  21. Sexual offences
  22. Poisons and poisoning
  23. The law relating to drugs and poisons
  24. Drug addiction
  25. Medico-legal aspects of alcohol
  26. Forensic toxicology
  27. Radiology in forensic medicine
  28. Forensic odontology
  29. Legal aspects of medical practice
  30. Medical ethics
  31. Deaths associated with medical and surgical care
  32. Forensic psychiatry
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