Essentials Of Medicolegal Death Investigation

Author : Matthew M. Lunn
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128036702
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essentials of Medicolegal Death Investigation written by Matthew M. Lunn and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2016-12-29 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essentials of Medicolegal Death Investigation uses a unique approach by combining medical issues, injury patterns, and investigative procedures to provide the reader with the basic fundamentals for a death investigation. The text introduces the reader to death investigation, common causes of death, and very specific types of death, including blunt-force injuries, gunshot wounds, and toxicology deaths. Each section includes case studies with written and visual descriptions. Written by a well-known and experienced medicolegal death investigator, the book fills a void in medicolegal literature for both students and professionals alike. Provides a valuable guide to the interpretation of medical death investigation for practitioners and students Covers the following circumstances in death investigations: asphyxiation, blunt-force injuries, sharp-force injuries, gunshot wounds, toxicology deaths, and natural causes Includes case studies with written and visual descriptions and discussion, as well as up-to-date literature review

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309089867
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicolegal Death Investigation System written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-09-22 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice (NIJ) asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of The National Academies to conduct a workshop that would examine the interface of the medicolegal death investigation system and the criminal justice system. NIJ was particularly interested in a workshop in which speakers would highlight not only the status and needs of the medicolegal death investigation system as currently administered by medical examiners and coroners but also its potential to meet emerging issues facing contemporary society in America. Additionally, the workshop was to highlight priority areas for a potential IOM study on this topic. To achieve those goals, IOM constituted the Committee for the Workshop on the Medicolegal Death Investigation System, which developed a workshop that focused on the role of the medical examiner and coroner death investigation system and its promise for improving both the criminal justice system and the public health and health care systems, and their ability to respond to terrorist threats and events. Six panels were formed to highlight different aspects of the medicolegal death investigation system, including ways to improve it and expand it beyond its traditional response and meet growing demands and challenges. This report summarizes the Workshop presentations and discussions that followed them.

Author : Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9780128138182
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multidisciplinary Medico-Legal Death Investigation written by Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multidisciplinary Medico-Legal Death Investigation: Role of Consultants is the only volume in the field that focuses on the role consultants have in a medical examiner/coroner office and how their consultation enhances the quality of the medico-legal death investigation. The goal is to provide the reader with a multidisciplinary view by including specialized fields such as anesthesiology, surgery, radiology including CT scan, pediatrics, cardiology-electrophysiology, cardiac pathology, forensic anthropology and odontology, firearms examination, firearms, eye pathology and psychiatry/psychology written by expert contributors. Coverage also includes chapters on specialized topics including handling of high profile cases, the media, business continuity planning, envenomations, the importance quality assurance and peer review, and quality assurance in a medico-legal death investigation office. Multidisciplinary Medico-Legal Death Investigation: Role of Consultants is a one of a kind resource for those in the medico-legal death investigation field and professionals in the criminal and civil justice system. Organized by specialized fields including anesthesiology, surgery, radiology including CT scan, pediatrics, cardiology-electrophysiology, cardiac pathology, forensic anthropology and odontology, firearms examination, firearms, eye pathology, psychiatry/psychology, handling of high profile cases, the media, business continuity planning, envenomations, the importance quality assurance and peer review, and quality assurance in a medico-legal death investigation office Includes contributions by world renowned specialists Each chapter includes case studies and examples of consultation reports

Author : Werner U. Spitz
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN 13 : 0398093121
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spitz and Fisher's Medicolegal Investigation of Death written by Werner U. Spitz and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not just a new edition but a different book, emphasizing trauma and wound analysis. The addition of a new co-editor, Dr. Francisco J. Diaz, has brought new ideas to this fifth edition. A chapter by Doctor Jan Leetsma, world-renowned neuropathologist, has also been included. Doctor Leetsma’s vast experience in forensic neuropathology will certainly enhance this book. Several chapters have been eliminated that are no longer applicable or which are adequately covered in other publications. Over time, in the past 48 years, since this book was first published, Medicolegal Investigation of Death has been dubbed the “Bible of Forensic Pathology.” The fifth edition includes over 600 case reports and hundreds of color photographs. The cases are from files the authors have personally handled. According to author Spitz, “We have found many times analysis of small wounds will lead to understanding of a giant case—like the case in Hawaii, where a body was found under a full-size van, with a thread mark on the cheek consistent with having been hit with a black pipe used for gas lines that were found in a bucket in the rear of the van. As it turned out, this was a murder, not an accident.” The book is full of such cases. This book will help you understand the details of injuries and how a person was injured and how they died and how these injuries, perhaps at first blush possibly seemingly insignificant, can shed new light on a case. Medicolegal Investigation of Death now embraces not just basic forensic pathology but also includes death during restraint, conscious pain and suffering and new concepts related to the interpretation of injuries by detailed wound analysis. The continued use of simple, non-technical terminology makes this book a truly unique treatise and source of information.

Author : Jeffrey M Jentzen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674054067
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death Investigation in America written by Jeffrey M Jentzen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is the American system of death investigation so inconsistent and inadequate? In this unique political and cultural history, Jeffrey Jentzen draws on archives, interviews, and his own career as a medical examiner to look at the way that a long-standing professional and political rivalry controls public medical knowledge and public health.

Author : Peter Vanezis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 047074863X
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Forensic Medicine written by Peter Vanezis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Joseph Stopak
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9781543906516
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicolegal Death Investigation written by Joseph Stopak and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicolegal Death Investigation (MDI) is designed to provide basic and recurrent guidance for medicolegal death investigators, coroners, medical examiners, crime scene investigators, firefighters, and emergency medical service providers. This step-by-step field guide provides instructions for a variety of death scenes including: homicides, suicides, drug overdoses, suspicious deaths, and much more. Death Investigation is a complex process involving coordination with many parties. MDI summarizes the pertinent elements of scene investigation from medical and legal perspectives. This manual reflects up-to-date best practices in an area which has more recently become a focus of increased scrutiny. Basic investigation elements, as well as red flags, are presented in an easy-to-use format to enable an investigator to evaluate a scene with confidence. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office Investigation Unit investigates over 1200 scenes a year. Our team of investigators are certified by the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators (ABMDI) and have over 100 years of experience between them.

Author : Guy N. Rutty
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447106377
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essentials of Autopsy Practice written by Guy N. Rutty and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essentials of Autopsy Practice updates the modern pathologist on issues related to the autopsy. This volume contains topical chapters on the pathology of shock, religious attitudes to death, incised wounds, radiological investigations, metabolic disorders in childhood, maternal deaths, body alterations and piercings which are comprehensive, unique and educational. It brings the literature together into a modern, up-to-date review of the subject, each authored by experts in their field. It comprises the most recent developments in current autopsy practice making the book unique and exceptional - a valuable aid for the bench top, autopsy suite, laboratory or library. A hands-on reference book, Essentials of Autopsy Practice is of interest to both trainees and consultants in all sub-branches of pathology including forensic pathology. It can also be used by non-medical staff involved in the dead, such as nurses, police, lawyers and bereavement officers.

Author : Joseph Scott Morgan
Publisher : Feral House
ISBN 13 : 1936239345
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Beneath My Feet written by Joseph Scott Morgan and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever been locked in a cooler with piles of decomposing humans for so long that you had to shave all the hair off your body in order to get rid of the smell? Joseph Scott Morgan did. Have you ever lit a Marlboro from the ignited gas of a bloated dead man's belly? Joseph Scott Morgan has. Have you ever wept over a dead dog while not giving a shit about the dead owner laying next him? Morgan did. Were you named after a murder victim? Joseph Scott Morgan was. This isn't Hollywood fantasy—it's the true story of a boy born into the deprivations of a white trash trailer park who as an adult gets further involved in the desperate backdoor sagas of the "new South." No hot blondes here, just maggots, grief, and the truth about forensics and death investigation. Joseph Scott Morgan became a death investigator with the Jefferson Parish Coroner's Office in suburban New Orleans in 1987, the youngest medicolegal death investigator in the country. During the day, Morgan worked in the morgue, and at night investigated for the coroner. In 1992 Morgan became senior investigator with the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office in Atlanta. Morgan is now a college professor at North Georgia College and State University, where he teaches a death investigation course based on the national standards which he helped develop. He and his family reside in the Blue Ridge Mountains of north Georgia.

Author : Angela D. Levy
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420091123
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essentials of Forensic Imaging written by Angela D. Levy and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forensic imaging with multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) and other cross-sectional imaging modalities is a rapidly evolving field. Understanding the pathological basis of disease and death is fundamental to the interpretation of radiologic images. Forming a bridge between these distinct disciplines, Essentials of Forensic Imaging: A Text-Atla