Clinical Forensic Medicine: A Physician’s Guide, 4th Edition

This updated volume on clinical forensic medicine covers the topics required for forensic healthcare professionals working in general forensic medicine and sexual offence medicine. All chapters have been reviewed and revised to reflect how the provision of forensic medical services has changed since the previous edition with multidisciplinary teams working in the custodial environment, comprising doctors, nurses, and paramedis and the those practitioners providing sexual offence examination.

New and updated topics include the increasing importance of photo documentation by health care professionals; updated information on strangulation, torture, and elder abuse; a review of bite mark identification; the explosion of Novel Psychoactive Substances worldwide; the changing patterns of deaths in custody and deaths following police contact; and the introduction in various jurisdictions of legal limits for drugs based on zero tolerance or a risk based approach.

Written by a team of experts, the new edition of this book is a valuable resource for forensic healthcare professionals including doctors, nurses and paramedis working in general forensic medicine and sexual offence medicine, as welll as emergency physicians, pediatricians anda gynaecologists.