Legal medicine

Abstract

ch.1. General consideration -- Definition -- Scope and nature of legal medicine -- History -- Medical evidence -- Methods of preservation -- Weight and sufficiency of evidence -- ch.2. Deception detection -- Polygraph -- Word association test -- Psychologic stress evaluator -- Truth serum -- Narcoanalysis or narcosynthesis -- Intoxication with alcohol -- Observation -- Scientific interrogation -- Admissibility of evidence through interrogation -- Confession -- Tokyo declaration -- ch.3. Medico-legal aspects of identification -- Identification of persons -- Anthropometry -- Portrait parle -- Extrinsic factors in identification -- Light factor in identification -- Fingerprinting -- Dental identification -- Handwriting -- Identification of skeleton -- Determination of sex -- Determination of age -- Identification of blood and blood stains -- Identification of hair and fibers -- ch.4. Medico-legal aspects of death -- Types of death -- Kinds of death -- Signs of death -- Changes in the body following death -- ch.5. investigation of death -- Inquest officer -- Crime scene investigation -- Autopsies -- ch.6. Causes of death -- Immediate or primary cause of death -- Proximate or secondary cause of death -- Mechanism of death -- Manner of death -- Instantaneous physiologic death -- Medico-legal classification of death -- Penal classification of death -- Pathological classification of death -- ch.7 special deaths -- Judicial death -- Euthanasia -- Death by starvation -- ch.8. Disposal of dead bodies -- Methods of disposal of dead body -- Embalming.