Clinical Forensic Medicine: A Physician's Guide

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-vi Clinical Forensic Medicine: History and Development (J. Jason Payne-James, Margaret M. Stark)....Pages 1-21 Fundamental Principles (Margaret M. Stark)....Pages 23-61 Sexual Assault Examination (Maria Nittis)....Pages 63-141 Injury Assessment, Documentation, and Interpretation (J. Jason Payne-James, Margaret M. Stark, Maria Nittis, Douglas R. Sheasby)....Pages 143-194 Physical Child Abuse (John A. M. Gall)....Pages 195-238 Chemical Crowd Control Agents (Sarah L. Belsey, Steven B. Karch)....Pages 239-253 Medical Issues Relevant to Restraint (Philip S. L. Beh, Margaret M. Stark)....Pages 255-278 TASER Conducted Electrical Weapons (Rich Childers, Ted Chan, Gary Vilke)....Pages 279-312 Care of Detainees (Margaret M. Stark, Alex J. Gorton, Patrick Chariot)....Pages 313-341 Infectious Diseases: The Role of the Healthcare Professional (Felicity Nicholson)....Pages 343-392 Fitness to Be Interviewed and Fitness to Be Charged (Margaret M. Stark, Keith J. B. Rix)....Pages 393-420 Substance Misuse (Margaret M. Stark)....Pages 421-468 Deaths in Police Custody (Richard T. Shepherd)....Pages 469-493 Traffic Medicine (Ian F. Wall, Margaret M. Stark)....Pages 495-538 Back Matter ....Pages 539-545