Overview

The Fifteenth Edition of Simpson's Forensic Medicine provides an overview of all that is relevant in practice at the interface between medicine and law. Its long-standing reputation as one of the world's leading introductory texts in the field of forensic & legal medicine is reflected by easy-to-read and informative text, complemented by numerous colour images, tables and figures. Identifying current forensic & legal medicine practice, the comprehensive coverage encompasses all aspects of forensic pathology, clinical forensic medicine, legal medicine and highlights contemporary topics such as non-fatal strangulation, deaths in custody, safeguarding, intimate-partner violence as well as subjects such as asphyxial deaths, the impact of heat, cold and electrical trauma and immersion and drowning. Forensic & legal medicine is intimately involved with the criminal and civil justice systems including family law. Forensic & legal medicine and forensic science are closely linked and for all those whose work brings them into contact with such subjects, Simpson’s provides an immediate source of accessible knowledge. Students and practitioners in such settings can understand how their area of work or study interrelates and interacts with others in different settings. Simpson's is, therefore, a textbook of choice for those studying forensic & legal medicine or forensic science, and for forensic practitioners, law students, law enforcement personnel, healthcare professionals and judges, coroners and other legal professionals.

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Author:   Jason Payne-James (William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London) ,  Richard Martin Jones (Wales Institute of Forensic Medicine, Cardiff)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   CRC Press
Edition:   15th edition
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032424354

ISBN 10:   1032424354
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   29 September 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Medicine, Science and the Law 1 Principles of forensic practice 2 The ethics of medical practice 3 Medicolegal aspects of death Forensic Pathology 4 Violence in society, medicolegal investigation of death and the autopsy 5 The appearance of the body after death 6 Death from natural causes 7 Deaths and injury in infancy The pathology of trauma 8 Assessment, classification and documentation of injury 9 Ballistic injuries 10 Regional injuries and patterns of injury Common topics in forensic pathology 11 Pressure to the neck & asphyxia deaths 12 Heat, cold & electrical trauma 13 Immersion and drowning Clinical Forensic Medicine 14 Identification of the living and the dead 15 Restraint and control techniques 16 Police custodial healthcare 17 Sexual assault and genitoanal injury and female genital mutilation 18 Safeguarding and protection of children and vulnerable adults 19 Transportation medicine 20 Torture, and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment 21 Principles of forensic science and crime scene investigation 22 Principles of toxicology 23 Alcohol (ethanol) 24 Licit and illicit drugs 25 Medicinal poisons and miscellaneous poisons 26 Miscellaneous poisons

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Professor Jason Payne-James, LLM, MSc, FFFLM, FRCS (Eng. & Edin.), FRCP, FCSFS, RCPathME, FFCFM(RCPA), DFM, LBIPP. Specialist in Forensic & Legal Medicine & Consultant Forensic Physician. Honorary Clinical Professor, William Harvey Research Institute, Centre for Clinical Pharmacology and Precision Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London. Lead Medical Examiner, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich. President, European Council of Legal & Forensic Medicine. Director, Forensic Health Services Ltd, Southminster, United Kingdom Richard Jones, BSc(Hons), MBBS, PgCUTL, FRCPath, FHEA, MCIEH, MFFLM, MRSPH. Clinical Senior Lecturer in Forensic Pathology, Wales Institute of Forensic Medicine. Cardiff University School of Medicine. College of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Cardiff. Home Office-Registered Forensic Pathologist, Honorary Consultant Forensic Pathologist, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Cardiff, United Kingdom

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