4th ed. 2020 Edition
by Margaret M. Stark (Editor)
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.
