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Legal and forensic medicine

Beran, Roy G.(Edited by)
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This is a comprehensive reference text that examines the current state of Legal Medicine, which encompasses Forensic Medicine, in the 21st century.

It examines the scope of both legal and forensic medicine, its application and study and has adopted a wide ranging approach including multinational authorship.

It reviews the differences between and similarities of forensic and legal medicine, the need for academic qualification, the applications to many and varied fields including international aid, military medicine, health law and the application of medical knowledge to both criminal law and tort/civil law, sports medicine and law, gender and age related factors from obstetrics through to geriatrics and palliative care as well as cultural differences exploring the Christian/Judeo approach compared with that within Islamic cultures, Buddhism and Hinduism.

The book looks at practical applications of legal medicine within various international and intercultural frameworks. This is a seminal authoritative text in legal and forensic medicine.

It has a multi-author and multinational approach which crosses national boundaries.

There is a great interest in the development of health law and legal medicine institutes around the world and this text comes in on the ground floor of this burgeoning discipline and provides the foundation text for many courses, both undergraduate and postgraduate.

It defines the place of legal medicine as a specialized discipline.

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3642323375 / 9783642323379
Hardback
614.1
01/08/2013
Germany
English
1200 pages
24 cm
Professional & Vocational Learn More