Contents:

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. Impotence and Sterility

15. Virginity, Pregnancy and Delivery

16. Abortion

17. Sexual Offences

18. Infant Deaths

19. Blood Stains.

20. Artefacts

21. Forensic Science Laboratory

22. Forensic Psychiatry

23. General Considerations

24. Agricultural Poisons

25. Corrosive Poisons

26. Metallic Poisons

27. Inorganic Irritant Poisons

28. Organic Irritant Poisons

29. CNS Depressants

30. Psychotropic Drugs

31. Deliriant Poisons

32. Drug Dependence and Abuse

33. Spinal Poisons

34. Cardiac Poisons

35. Asphyxiants

36. Miscellaneous Poisons

37. Food Poisoning

Appendix