Main description:

This updated volume on clinical forensic medicine covers the topics required for forensic healthcare professionals working in general forensic medicine and sexual offence medicine. All chapters have been reviewed and revised to reflect how the provision of forensic medical services has changed since the previous edition with multidisciplinary teams working in the custodial environment, comprising doctors, nurses, and paramedics and those practitioners providing sexual offence examinations.

New and updated topics include: the increasing importance of photo documentation by health care professionals; updated information on strangulation, torture; a review of bite mark injuries; the explosion of Novel Psychoactive Substances worldwide; the changing patterns of deaths in custody and deaths following police contact; and the introduction in various jurisdictions of legal limits for drugs based on zero tolerance or a risk based approach.

Written by a team of experts, the new edition of this book is a valuable resource for forensic healthcare professionals including doctors, nurses and paramedics working in general forensic medicine and sexual offence medicine, as well as emergency physicians, pediatricians and gynaecologists.

Contents:

The History & Development of Clinical Forensic Medicine World-wide.- Fundamental Principles.- Sexual Assault Examination.- Injury Assessment, Documentation & Interpretation.- Physical Child Abuse.- Chemical Crowd Control Agents.- Medical TASER Conducted Electrical Weapons.- Care of Detainees.- Infectious Diseases: The Role of the Forensic Physician.- Fitness to be interviewed.- Substance Misuse.- Deaths in Custody.- Traffic Medicine.