Contents:

Section I: Forensic medicine

1. Introduction

2. Legal Procedure

3. Medical Law and Ethics

4. Identification

5. Medicolegal Autopsy

6. Death and Its Cause

7. Postmortem Changes

8. Mechanical Injuries

9. Regional Injuries

10. Medicolegal Aspects of Wounds

11. Thermal Deaths

12. Starvation

13. Mechanical Asphyxia

14. Anaesthetic and Operative Deaths

15. Impotence and Sterility

16. Virginity, Pregnancy and Delivery

17. Abortion

18. Sexual Offences

19. Infant Deaths

20. Blood Stains

21. Artefacts

22. Forensic Science Laboratory

23. Forensic Psychiatry

Section II: Toxicology

24. General Considerations

25. Agricultural Poisons

26. Corrosive Poisons

27. Metallic Poisons

28. Inorganic Irritant Poisons

29. Organic Irritant Poisons

30. CNS Depressants

31. Psychotropic Drugs

32. Deliriant Poisons

33. Substance (Drug) Dependence and Abuse

34. Spinal Poisons

35. Cardiac Poisons

36. Asphyxiants

37. Miscellaneous Poisons

38. Food Poisoning

Appendices

Index