This book is the second volume in the Recent Advances in Forensic Medicine and Toxicology series. Volume One (9789351525585) published in 2014. Divided into five sections, the text provides specialists and trainees with the very latest advances and information in their field. The book begins with discussion on medical jurisprudence and legal issues covering issues such as medical negligence and medical evidence in victim examination. The next chapters cover clinical forensic medicine describing specific cases, and forensic pathology explaining autopsy for different scenarios. New to this volume, are two final sections which discuss advances in forensic anthropology, examination of skeletal remains, and controversies in forensic testing and investigations. Key points New volume presenting latest advances and information in forensic medicine and toxicology Covers medical jurisprudence, clinical forensic medicine and forensic pathology Volume Two features two new sections on forensic anthropology and forensic science Highly illustrated with forensic photographs, diagrams, tables and boxes

This illustrated guide to the role of the forensic anthropologist in investigating child abuse is an essential resource in one of the most contentious areas of forensic pathology. Not only does it supply a review of the literature in this field, but it illustrates the material with photographs from real cases investigated by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, which serves a population of four million people. Broken down into body regions and skeletal elements for ease of reference, the atlas facilitates the vital work performed by forensic anthropologists, who bring to the autopsy table a store of specialist knowledge that can turn a case. Despite the frequency of child fatalities (in America, 2.3per 100,000) attributed to physical abuse, merely recognizing the offense is a major forensic challenge. The tell-tale signatures of non-accidental injury can be very subtle, making it difficult to differentiate between accidental and non-accidental injury. Yet successful adjudication of a child abuse case often rests on the correct interpretation of skeletal injury. In this volume the authors guide the reader through published data regarding the mechanics and interpretation of injuries, including the agencies they indicate. The material includes discussion of the limitations faced in interpreting some injuries, where making a judgment on cause is tricky. In addition, a chapter on natural diseases affecting the bones provides a good overview of several conditions that are often invoked as 'mimics' of child abuse. Finally, this publication evinces the value of collaboration between the pathologist and the anthropologist.

La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the Black Death. The Great Mortality is the extraordinary epic account of the worst natural disaster in European history -- a drama of courage, cowardice, misery, madness, and sacrifice that brilliantly illuminates humankind's darkest days when an old world ended and a new world was born.

A fascinating collection of ten high-profile cases illustrating the controversial, often contentious-yet essential-role of forensic psychology in the American justice system

Written by psychologist and lawyer Charles Patrick Ewing, one of the country's leading experts on forensic psychology, "Trials of a Forensic Psychologist: A Casebook" is a scholarly, thought-provoking collection of cases from the author's three decades of professional experience. Bringing to life the psychological and legal details of each case as well as the personal stories involved, this volume insightfully covers those issues facing forensic psychologists, including:

• Ability to Waive Miranda Rights
• Coerced Confessions
• The Insanity Defense
• Malingering
• Battered Woman Syndrome
• Evaluating Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse
• The Implications of Extreme Emotional DisturbanceInformative, compelling, and educational, each of the ten cases presented in "Trials of a Forensic Psychologist: A Casebook" offers a rare glimpse at the work of forensic psychologists, how forensic psychologists are examined in court, the ways in which their expertise is used by the legal system, and the contributions they make to the system's ultimate goal of doing justice.

A Companion to Forensic Anthropology presents the most comprehensive assessment of the philosophy, goals, and practice of forensic anthropology currently available, with chapters by renowned international scholars and experts. * Highlights the latest advances in forensic anthropology research, as well as the most effective practices and techniques used by professional forensic anthropologists in the field * Illustrates the development of skeletal biological profiles and offers important new evidence on statistical validation of these analytical methods. * Evaluates the goals and methods of forensic archaeology, including the preservation of context at surface-scattered remains, buried bodies and fatal fire scenes, and recovery and identification issues related to large-scale mass disaster scenes and mass grave excavation.

In Quest of Justice provides the first full account of the establishment and workings of a new kind of state in Egypt in the modern period. Drawing on groundbreaking research in the Egyptian archives, this highly original book shows how the state affected those subject to it and their response. Illustrating how shari'a was actually implemented, how criminal justice functioned, and how scientific-medical knowledges and practices were introduced, Khaled Fahmy offers exciting new interpretations that are neither colonial nor nationalist. Moreover he shows how lower-class Egyptians did not see modern practices that fused medical and legal purposes in new ways as contrary to Islam. This is a major contribution to our understanding of Islam and modernity.

"A real jewel of science history...brims with suspense and now-forgotten catastrophe and intrigue...Wadman's smooth prose calmly spins a surpassingly complicated story into a real tour de force."-The New York Times "Riveting . . . [The Vaccine Race] invites comparison with Rebecca Skloot's 2007 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks."-Nature The epic and controversial story of a major breakthrough in cell biology that led to the conquest of rubella and other devastating diseases. Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of American children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly known as German measles, while pregnant; there was no vaccine and little understanding of how the disease devastated fetuses. In June 1962, a young biologist in Philadelphia, using tissue extracted from an aborted fetus from Sweden, produced safe, clean cells that allowed the creation of vaccines against rubella and other common childhood diseases. Two years later, in the midst of a devastating German measles epidemic, his colleague developed the vaccine that would one day wipe out homegrown rubella. The rubella vaccine and others made with those fetal cells have protected more than 150 million people in the United States, the vast majority of them preschoolers. The new cells and the method of making them also led to vaccines that have protected billions of people around the world from polio, rabies, chicken pox, measles, hepatitis A, shingles and adenovirus. Meredith Wadman's masterful account recovers not only the science of this urgent race, but also the political roadblocks that nearly stopped the scientists. She describes the terrible dilemmas of pregnant women exposed to German measles and recounts testing on infants, prisoners, orphans, and the intellectually disabled, which was common in the era. These events take place at the dawn of the battle over using human fetal tissue in research, during the arrival of big commerce in campus labs, and as huge changes take place in the laws and practices governing who "owns" research cells and the profits made from biological inventions. It is also the story of yet one more unrecognized woman whose cells have been used to save countless lives. With another frightening virus--measles--on the rise today, no medical story could have more human drama, impact, or urgency than The Vaccine Race.

This is the leading work on forensic medicine and the law in the UK. Written by a team of leading legal practitioners, pathologists and other experts, this Seventh Edition has been fully revised to bring it up to date with the latest legal, medical and scientific developments. It is the only book directed at both the legal practitioner and the expert medical witness. It provides unique commentary on the law in all three UK jurisdictions: England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. It guides experts on their role and duties to the courts and highlights areas of current scientific and legal controversy with additional reference sources. In addition to two new chapters on forensic psychiatry and forensic science, the Seventh Edition includes updates and new material on: - Introduction to medicine, the systems of the body and autopsy procedure - Forensic medicine covering assaults, firearms, head injuries, road traffic collisions, falls, asphyxia, drowning, hypothermia, and heat and electricity - Sexual offences, deaths in detention, forensic odontology and toxicology - Guidance for the expert medical witness on giving evidence in the UK courts, covering the UK’s criminal justice systems, coroners’ courts and fatal accident inquiries This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Personal Injury Law online service.

Forensic Chemistry: Fundamentals and Applications presents a new approach to the study of applications of chemistry to forensic science. It is edited by one of the leading forensic scientists with each chapter written by international experts specializing in their respective fields, and presents the applications of chemistry, especially analytical chemistry, to various topics that make up the forensic scientists toolkit. This comprehensive, textbook includes in-depth coverage of the major topics in forensic chemistry including: illicit drugs, fibers, fire and explosive residues, soils, glass and paints, the chemistry of fingerprint recovery on porous surfaces, the chemistry of firearms analysis, as well as two chapters on the key tools of forensic science, microscopy and chemometrics. Each topic is explored at an advanced college level, with an emphasis, throughout the text, on the use of chemical tools in evidence analysis. Forensic Chemistry: Fundamentals and Applications is essential reading for advanced students of forensic science and analytical chemistry, as well as forensic science practitioners, researchers and faculty, and anyone who wants to learn about the fascinating subject of forensic chemistry in some depth. This book is published as part of the AAFS series Forensic Science in Focus .

This ground-breaking book provides the first detailed clinical analysis of the various manifestations of catatonia, shutdown and breakdown in autistic individuals, with a new assessment framework (ACE-S) and guidance on intervention and management strategies using a psycho-ecological approach. Based on Dr Amitta Shah's lifetime of clinical experience in Autism Spectrum Disorders, and her research in collaboration with Dr Lorna Wing, this much needed book will be a valuable resource for professionals, autistic individuals and their families and carers.

Of the thousands of papers and books about problematic sexual behaviors, most focus solely on sex crimes or so-called "hyper-sexuality" or "sexual addiction." Together, these publications present a grim and pessimistic prognosis for anyone who has unusual sexual interests of any type. This book challenges that view by providing a more informed and balanced review of what is known and what is not known about unconventional sexual interests. It is based on approximately thirty years of experience by the author concerning the assessment and treatment of paraphilias and unconventional sexual interests. The Paraphilias: Changing Suits in the Evolution of Sexual Interest Paradigms examines current and past perspectives concerning unconventional sexual interests associated with both criminal and non-criminal activities. Extensively referenced, it challenges the dogma that sexual interests are immutably determined during a single critical period and are thereafter unchangeable. The book provides extensive case histories and tables summarizing over 100 paraphilias and the latest research regarding them. It also reviews diagnostic criteria for the paraphilias. Analyses of current and past paradigms are presented together with new ways to understand, investigate, and provide meaningful and effective assistance to people with paraphilias. It is written for mental health clinicians and specialists in the fields of sexology and forensic psychiatry and psychology.

Menschen mit chronischen Atemwegsbeschwerden die "Angst beim Atmen" zu nehmen und ihnen Hilfen fur den Umgang mit den gefurchteten akuten Notsituationen anzubieten, ist das Ziel dieses Patientenratgebers. Die Autorin, eine in der Behandlung von Erkrankungen des Atemapparates erfahrene Physiotherapeutin, hat speziell fur sie atemtherapeutische Ubungen und Massnahmen, Tips zum Einsatz von Hilfsmitteln und Verhaltensstrategien fur den Alltag zusammengestellt.
Bereits wahrend der Rehabilitationsphase kann dieses Buch Patienten therapiebegleitend vermitteln, wie sie spater im Alltag mit den Folgen ihrer Krankheit zurechtkommen und ihre Symptome jederzeit gezielt beeinflussen konnen."

Die Eignung der gaschromatographischen Begleitstoffanalyse am Serum mit Tertiarbutanol als innerem Standard und Zusatz von Natriumsulfat zur simul- tanen Bestimmung der Blutalkoholkonzentration wurde uberpriift. Bei waBrigen und serosen Testlosungen ergab sich ein relativer Streubereich (3 s) zwischen +/- 6,5 % und maximal 16,4 %, so daB die zur Begleitstoffbestimmung optimierte Methode nicht den Anforderungen und Richtlinien des BGA zur forensischen Alkoholbestimmung entspricht. Eine routinemaBige simultane Begleitstofibe- stimmung im Rahmen der forensischen BAK-Bestimmung erscheint z.Z. nicht moglich - zumindest nicht wenn auf eine fur die Begleitstoffanalyse erforderli- che, hohe Empfindlichkeit abgestellt wird. Umgekehrt ermoglicht jedoch die simultane, im gleichen Untersuchungsgang erfolgende BAK-Bestimmung bei der Begleitstoffanalyse im Vergleich mit dem Wert der Erstbestimmung eine wenig aufwendige Beurteilung von Analysefeh- lern und moglicherweise abgelaufenen Lagerungs- oder Faulnisveranderungen. Literatur Alkohol und Stra13enverkehr (1977) Zweites Gutachten des Bundesgesundheitsamtes, Berlin (Schriftenreihe des Bundesministeriums fUr Verkehr, H 52) Bitzer N, Penners B-M (1985) Zur Frage der Abbau- und Ausscheidungsgeschwindigkeit der Begleitstoffe Propanol-l und Isobutanol nach GenuB von Whisky der Marke "Chivas Regal".

This comprehensive book covers the care of victims of sexual and domestic violence. Containing much practical advice - including writing legal reports and court skills, and issues of consent and capacity the content highlights throughout the need to provide good-quality care to victims, not just for successful prosecutions but, more importantly, for the sake of the victim's mental and physical health. There are chapters on important topics such as child sex exploitation, female genital mutilation, male victims, training, and psychological issues. The content covers the syllabi for DFCASA, MFFLM(SOM) Part 2, and the RCOG ATSM in forensic gynaecology. This book is recommended for gynaecologists, sexual health doctors and nurses, genitourinary medicine doctors and nurses, emergency medicine doctors and nurses, midwives, counsellors and psychologists who work with victims, paediatricians, forensic doctors and nurses, specialist police officers and lawyers, and those working in sexual assault referral centres and independent sexual violence advisers."

AIDS ist immer noch eine nicht zu vernachlassigende Erkrankung in Deutschland. Nur der Arzt, der die Symptome richtig zu deuten vermag, wird fruhzeitig an eine HIV-Infektion denken. Das vorliegende Werk erlautert aber vor allem aber auch die neuesten Therapieverfahren. Durch regelmassige Folgelieferungen (etwa 3 pro Jahr) bleiben Sie immer auf dem aktuellsten Stand Forschung und koennen Ihre Patienten optimal betreuen.

Medical law is now a distinct and important legal subject. The rights and duties of the medical profession and the increasing human rights demands of patients ensures medical law continues to be one of the most dynamic and challenging subjects for study and debate. Since the publication of the first edition of this book, medical law has had to confront a series of cases concerning one of the most intractable issues of our time, the termination of patients' lives in distressing conditions. Since the momentous House of Lords' decision in the case of Anthony Bland, a victim of the Hillsborough Stadium disaster, the medical law courts have had to react to changes in medical technology which can increase a patient's life-span whilst inspiring strong ethical dilemmas. Medical research has recently pioneered the technology to clone the human species as well as transplant organs from animals to humans. These are just a sample of current matters considered in the second edition of Textbook on Medical Law, which remains both a description and an evaluation of the law as it stands and is an aid to understanding the core principles which guide the future development of that law.

Die Anzahl der Allergiekranken in Deutschland wird auf 30 Millionen geschatzt. Ihre arztliche Versorgung erfordert sehr grosse Erfahrung. Grundlegend ist die korrekte Diagnose. Entsprechend der Vielfalt allergischer Krankheitsbilder sind die diagnostischen Methoden vielfaltig und differenziert einzusetzen. Qualifizierte Spezialisten aus allen allergologisch tatigen Fachgebieten stellen in diesem Buch das gesamte Spektrum der Diagnostik dar."

Bei uber 95 % aller Verstorbenen in Deutschland bestehen nach wie vor keine autoptisch gesicherten Erkenntnisse uber die eigentliche Todesursache und etwaige Begleiterkrankungen. Die auf einer solchen unsicheren Datenlage beruhenden gesundheitspolitischen Entscheidungen zu Disease-Management-Programmen, zu Pravention und strukturellen Massnahmen der Krankenversorgung entsprechen damit nicht der erforderlichen Evidenz. Dies hat zugleich negative Auswirkungen auf die Qualitat arztlicher Diagnostik und Therapie und somit auf die Patientensicherheit. Zudem machen es die sehr unterschiedlichen Rechtsgrundlagen in den Landesgesetzen uber das Leichen-, Bestattungs- und Friedhofswesen den betroffenen Angehoerigen und den Mediziner in der praktischen Umsetzung der oft widerstreitenden Interessen nicht leicht. Die klinische und anatomische Sektion ist nach derzeit allgemeiner Meinung auch im wissenschaftlichen Interesse oder zu Ausbildungszwecken ohne Zustimmung des Verstorbenen oder seiner Angehoerigen unzulassig. Die medizinische Forschungs- und Ausbildungssituation wird durch diese Zustimmungsloesung nachhaltig beeintrachtigt; eine erweiterte Widerspruchsloesung koennte hierbei viele Hindernisse in der praktischen Handhabung beseitigen. Die DGMR hat sich in ihren aktuellen Empfehlungen daher fur eine gesetzliche Abkopplung der postmortalen Gewebespende von der Organtransplantation im Transplantationsgesetz ausgesprochen, um die seit Jahren niedrige Obduktionsquote in Deutschland nachhaltig zu verbessern. Der vorliegende Tagungsband gibt die Referate und die Empfehlungen der DGMR zur Obduktion und postmortalen Gewebespende wieder.

Obwohl der Mensch im naturlichen phylogenetischen System der Organismen keine Sonderstellung einnimmt, kommt ibm aufgrund seiner doppelten Geschichtlichkeit eine AusnahmesteUung zu. Ziel palaoanthropologischer Forschung ist es, den Prozess der Menschwerdung als komplexen psycho physischen Adaptationsprozess zu verstehen und zum Selbstverstandnis des Menschen beizutragen. Moderne palaoanthropologische Forschung ist damit wesentlich mehr als nur Fossilkunde, namlich ein multidisziplinarer Ansatz. Da die Palaoanthropologie in den bei den letzten Dezennien durch zahlreiche neue Daten, Befunde und Denkansatze gepragt wurde, die zu vielfliltigen Modell bildungen, z. B. zur Evolutionsokologie der fruhesten Hominiden oder zur Entstehung des anatomisch modernen Menschen, Anlass gaben, fehlt im deutsch sprachigen Raum ein aktuelles Lehrbuch der Palaoanthropologie. Der vorliegende Band, der in einen methodischen (Kap. 2 -4) und einen angewandten Teil (Kap. 5 -8) gegliedert ist, soll diese Lucke schliessen. Das inhaltliche Konzept fusst auf der Lehrpraxis der Autoren auf dem Gebiet der Palaoanthropologie und -primatologie sowie auf vielfliltigen sachbezogenen Anregungen der angesprochenen Leserschaft, insbesondere der Studenten der Anthropologie und der Biologielehrer. Text- und Abbildungsumfang wurden gleichgewichtig behandelt, wobei versucht wurde, die gesamte Bandbreite der Denkansatze und Modellvorstellungen zur Stammesgeschichte des Menschen zu integrieren und ihr Fur und Wider abzuwagen. Der Band soU den Leser letztlich in die Lage versetzen, stammesgeschichtliche Aussagen, die prinzipiell nur Modellcharakter haben, kritisch zu bewerten und eigene Forschungsfragen und -strategien zu entwickeln. Das detaillierte Register und das umfangreiche Literaturverzeichnis sollen dabei den Zugang zu den vielfliltigen Daten, Fakten und Themenkomplexen des Hominisationsprozesses erleichtern. Dem Verlagshaus Springer, namentlich Herrn Dr."

In 33 Einzelbeitragen behandeln fuhrende Wissenschaftler aus der Psychiatrie des In- und Auslandes zentrale Fragestellungen der Psychiatrie: - Das Menschenbild in der Psychiatrie, Moglichkeiten und Grenzen psychiatrischen Denkens und Handelns, Fragen des Krankheitsbegriffs, Sexualitat und psychische Erkrankung, Psychotherapie und Zeitgeist, anthropologische Aspekte psychiatrischer Alterserkrankungen - Extremsituationen, Psychiatrie der Verfolgten, KZ-Haft und psychische Traumatisierung, sowie vollig neue Ergebnisse uber die Rolle der Universitatspsychiatrie Hamburgs im Kontext der NS-Psychiatrie - zur Psychiatriereform, den Grundrechten in der Psychiatrie, dem Konzept "sexueller Gesundheit" der WHO - zur Erforschung der therapeutischen Beziehung in der Psychiatrie, zu Ubertragung und Gegenubertragung und zu deren Einfluss und Auswirkung auf Theoriebildung einzelner Krankheitsbilder und Behandlungsergebnisse.

All professionals now require a working knowledge of the law relating to their subject. This text offers practical guidance specifically for the doctor, nurse, manager or lawyer faced with legal difficulties arising out of a medical emergency. The first part of the book offers guidance, with examples, for those "on the spot" in difficult situations, whilst the second part consists of a condensed but authoritative summary of the various legal topics comprising emergency medicine law. Written in plain language, it makes several complex and difficult areas of the law accessible to the legal layman, yet it does not avoid more complicated issues and is fully referenced so that the truth of each statement can be validated.

Good record keeping is essential in medicine, a point often stressed by the defence organizations. A & E records are frequently very bad - which may cause medicological problems as well as impairing effective patient care. The reason is inexperience. This book explains what it is important to record (and why) and gives examples.

Good records are essential in A & E. This book explains the reasons for keeping good records and describes how A & E records should be kept, both in general terms nad emphasizing the essential information to be recorded with different mechanisms of injury and in different anatomical sites. Some performas for collecting information on examination, especially orthopaedic and neurological examination, but none which specifically covers record-keeping or even discusses it other than to stress its importance. There are pamphlets for medical students often provided by individual medical schools, but these just cover general medicine and surgery.

Die Beitrage dieser Festschrift zeigen eindrucksvoll das breit gefacherte Spektrum des Faches Rechtsmedizin auf. Anerkannte Wissenschaftler dieser Disziplin geben einen Uberblick uber neueste Forschungsergebnisse. Der Themenkreis wird vervollstandigt durch aktuelle Fragen des Medizinrechts und der forensischen Psychopathologie, uber die namhafte Autoren ihres Faches berichten. Die behandelten Probleme aus den Grenzgebieten zwischen Recht und Medizin sind sowohl aus arztrechtlicher wie auch aus forensisch-psychiatrischer Sicht besonders brisant und aktuell.

Forensic Pharmacology offers a unique and comprehensible account of pharmacological methods and knowledge, and how to use them to solve problems in crimes from drunken driving to murder. It also deals with negligence in giving drugs, and adverse reactions to drugs. The text is enlivened by cases from the literature and from the authors' experience. Appendices give detailed examples of pharmacological problems and their solutions; tables and equations for alcohol calculations; and data for medicines encountered in forensic work.

Experts do not always understand what lawyers want of them, and lawyers fail to appreciate that experts in medicine and pharmacology may not be experts in the law. The section entitled 'legal considerations' was written by a barrister with wide experience of using expert evidence and explains clearly the legal principles. It also contains some helpful hints on how to deal with court procedure and adversarial lawyers.