Gilbert Corrigan

Essential Forensic Pathology (eBook, PDF)

Core Studies and Exercises

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A myriad of different scenarios await those entering the field of forensic pathology. This volume helps prepare pathologists in training by establishing what they must know about the most common death scenes they will encounter. The book includes chapters on scene investigation, identification, postmortem changes, and causes of death, including gunshot wounds, stab wounds, asphyxiation, sex-related death, and death from addiction. Additional chapters cover bombs and explosive devices, mental disease, epidemics, and issues related to forensic entomology. Each chapter contains a list of pertinent vocabulary and references for further study.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439876671
• Artikelnr.: 40065951

Autorenporträt

Gilbert Corrigan

Inhaltsangabe

Section I: Introduction. Introduction: Coaching Objectives in Medical
Education. Section II: A Program in Forensic Pathology. The Forensic
Pathology Residency Program with Rotations. Section III: Forensic Pathology
Essentials. The Governmental Role in Forensic Pathology. The Medical
Examiner and Coroner Systems with Comparisons and Evaluations. The Academic
Discipline of Forensic Pathology. Scene Investigation. Identification:
Problems and Methods. Postmortem Changes (Signs of Death). The Medical
Legal Autopsy and the Ethics of Pathological Diagnosis by Forensic
Pathologists; Suicide as a Topic Area in Forensic Pathology. The Cause and
Mechanisms of Death: Natural Death and the Changes of Aging; Geriatric
Pathology; and End-of-Life Care, Hospice Care, and Palliative Care. Sudden
Death: Forensic Clinical Microbiology. Physical Trauma. Secondary Effects
and Complications of Trauma. Gunshot Wounds. Incised and Stab Wounds.
Asphyxiation. Blunt Force Injuries and Pediatric Homicide. Electrical and
Thermal Injury. Gas Asphyxiation. Occupational Diseases. Sexual Deaths and
Serial Deaths. Infanticide, Abortion, and Crib Death. Alcoholism and Deaths
from Addiction. Analytical Toxicology. Classification of Death; Therapeutic
Misadventures. Trace Evidence and Criminalistics; Forensic Science. Recent
Advances in Medical Ethics Affecting Forensic Medicine and Pathology.
International Forensic Medicine and Pathology Practice; Forensic Nursing;
Epidemics and Laboratory Identifications. Urban Warfare and Nationalistic
Weaponry. Bombs, Explosives, and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).
Mental Disease, Paranoia, Aggression, and the Central Nervous System. The
New Electronic Media, Forensic Informatics, Forensic Pathology on the Web,
and Digital Forensics. The Asylum and the 60s: The Reform of Mental Disease
Asylums and the Consequences from the 70s to Today. Epidemics and Public
Health; Molecular Pathology. Why Did the Forensic Sciences Become Popular?
The Story and Heritage of Ronald Kornblum, MD, Pathologist. Organizational
Complexity in the Forensic Sciences. Forensic Sciences and the Military.
Digital Forensics and Forensic Informatics; The New Web and Internet.
Advanced Microscopic Techniques. Forensic Entomology in Forensic Pathology.
Clinical Forensic Pathology. Practical Advice for Forensic Pathologists.
Section IV: Dedication. Dedication to Russell S. Fisher, MD. Index.