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CBS PUBLICATION Practical Forensic Medicine by K Thangaraj
The first breath is the beginning and the last breath is the end of life — a universal phenomenon. Between these two breaths many diseases are contacted, several forms of treatment rendered and sometimes unnatural deaths mushroom, where medicolegal services are essential to examine the dead victims, and when clinical forensic medicine cases are examined, justice could be meted only by well trained and experienced doctors.This book discusses clinical forensic medicine cases in a detailed manner with relevant sections of law, including skeletal and fetal examinations. It has been written to guide the students to understand the concept of clinical forensic medicine examination by observing step-by-step details while each exercise enables them to form an opinion. The required laboratory investigations with retrieval of trace evidences relevant to each exercise have been included. The clinicians, casualty medical officers and medical officers in the gynaecology departments will find this book a useful and handy guide in day-to-day medicolegal examinations. It aims to gradually instil professional courage and confidence in the readers from the undergraduate student right up to the practising medical officer level.