Simpson's forensic medicine / Knight Benard.

Preceded by Simpson's forensic medicine / Jason Payne-James ... [et al.]. 13th ed. c2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Principles of forensic practice -- The ethics of medical practice -- Medicolegal aspects of death -- Violence in society, medicolegal investigation of death, the autopsy -- The appearance of the body after death -- Death from natural causes -- Deaths and injury in infancy -- Assessment, classification and documentation of injury -- Ballistic injuries -- Regional injuries and patterns of injury -- Pressure to the neck & asphyxial deaths -- Heat, cold & electrical trauma -- Immersion and drowning -- Identification of the living and the dead -- Restraint and control techniques -- Police custodial healthcare -- Sexual assault and genitoanal injury -- Safeguarding and protection of children and vulnerable adults -- Transportation medicine -- Torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment -- Principles of forensic science and crime scene investigation -- Principles of toxicology -- Alcohol (ethanol) -- Licit and illicit drugs -- Medicinal poisons and miscellaneous poisons.

Simpson's Forensic Medicine remains unsurpassed as the introductory text on forensic medicine for the student and the generalist. For the first time, the eleventh edition introduces over 100 high quality colour photographs selected for their instructive potential. The book continues to fulfil its chief objective which is to deal with the interface between medicine and law, in terms of medical examination of both the living and the dead for criminal and legal purposes and the ethical and legal obligations of doctors in respect of their practice and behaviour.