Current Practice in Forensic Medicine, Volume 2 (eBook)

Dr John Gall is a consultant forensic physician. He is Director of Southern Medical Services Pty Ltd; Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at The University of Melbourne; Consultant at the Victorian Forensic Paediatric Medical Service at the Royal Children's Hospital and Monash Medical Centre; President of the World Police Medical Officers; and Vice-President of the Australasian Association of Forensic Physicians. Jason Payne-James is a Consultant Forensic Physician & Specialist in Forensic & Legal Medicine. He is Honorary Consultant at the Paediatric & Emergency Medicine at St George's Hospital, London; Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Cameron Forensic Medical Sciences, Barts and the London SMD; President at the Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine (Royal College of Physicians); and Director of Forensic Healthcare Services Ltd.

List of Contributors

Preface

Chapter 1 DNA Contamination - a pragmatic clinical view

Chapter 2 THE TOXICITY OF THE NOVEL PSYCHOACTIVE

Chapter 3 Post-Mortem Gastric Content Analysis: Role in Determining Time Since Death

Chapter 4 CONDUCTED ENERGY DEVICES

Chapter 5 Autoerotic Deaths

Chapter 6 Excited Delirium Syndrome: Aetiology, Identification and Treatment

Chapter 7 AUTOMATISM - WADING THROUGH THE QUAGMIRE

Chapter 8 Classification of personality disorders, clinical manifestations and treatment

Chapter 9 DRIVING IMPAIRMENT: THE MAIN RISK FACTORS

Chapter 10 Risk Factors for Death or Harm to Health for Detainees in Short-Term Police Custody

Chapter 11 THE UTILITY OF RADIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF SUSPECTED ABUSIVE HEAD TRAUMA IN CHILDREN

Chapter 12 Child maltreatment: detection and diagnosis

Chapter 13 BODY RECOVERY IN POTENTIAL CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY INVESTIGATIONS - A FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH

Chapter 14 FIELD MISSIONS

Index