Overview

Established in 1969, Cyril Wecht's Legal Medicine series has, in the words of a review of the 1982 volume, helped validate and develop the field which it reports. Legal Medicine's format assembles articles by experts dealing with a range of topics in the field of legal medicine and forensic science. The contributors provide balanced coverage of timely and practical issues.

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Author:   Cyril H. Wecht
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.503kg
ISBN:  

9780275925956

ISBN 10:   0275925951
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   06 May 1988
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Private Consulting Forensic Pathology by Douglas R. Shanklin Homicide Investigation: Importance of Scene Visit by Forensic Pathologists by Cyril H. Wecht Death by Hanging by Bernard J. Ficarra Medical Expert Testimony in the Jean Harris Case by A. Bernard Ackerman The Validity of Urine Alcohol Analysis in Drunk Drivers by Charles L. Winek and Francis M. Esposito Low-Back Pain--Diagnosis, Treatment, and Medicolegal Considerations by Richard Arnold Silver The Use of Videotechnology by the Medical Trial Defense Bar--A Case Study by James B. Couch Dementia and Trauma by Nathanial Shafer Beyond the Right to Life--The Right to Health by Sharon M. Camissa and Natalie Ziontz Euthanasia: Where Are We? Where Are We Going? by Marvin S. Fish

Reviews

This volume consists of eighteen varying articles authored by an impressive cadre of experts in medicine, law, toxicology, pharmacology, forensic sciences and related specialties. The selections, in part at least, may be attributed to the editor's background in medicine and law and his extensive experience as a former coroner and leader or organizations if forensic sciences and legal medicine.... Each article is well-referenced, providing the reader with limited background in a specific subject category with additional resources to supplement the article. Since several selected topics are considered in more than one article and from a number of different perspectives the reader is provided an opportunity to cross-reference these in a comprehensive index.... [It] is recommended as a resource publication, worthy of obtaining for a pharmacy college library as well as for a forensic science laboratory. -American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

"""This volume consists of eighteen varying articles authored by an impressive cadre of experts in medicine, law, toxicology, pharmacology, forensic sciences and related specialties. The selections, in part at least, may be attributed to the editor's background in medicine and law and his extensive experience as a former coroner and leader or organizations if forensic sciences and legal medicine.... Each article is well-referenced, providing the reader with limited background in a specific subject category with additional resources to supplement the article. Since several selected topics are considered in more than one article and from a number of different perspectives the reader is provided an opportunity to cross-reference these in a comprehensive index.... [It] is recommended as a resource publication, worthy of obtaining for a pharmacy college library as well as for a forensic science laboratory.""-American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education"

Author Information

CYRIL H. WECHT, M.D., J.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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