Principles of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

Section 1: Forensic Medicine


1. Forensic Medicine: Meaning and Importance


2. Legal Procedure


3. Medical Jurisprudence


4. Identification


5. Forensic Osteology


6. DNA Profiling


7. Death and Changes after Death


8. Medicolegal Autopsy


9. Injury: General Considerations and Biophysics


10. Mechanical Injury


11. Firearm Injuries and Bomb Blast Injuries


12. Regional Injuries


13. Road Traffic Accidents


14. Injury: Medicolegal Considerations


15. Injuries due to Cold, Heat, Electricity and Lightning


16. Violent Asphyxia


17. Virginity, Sexual Offenses and Perversions


18. Impotence, Sterility and Sterilization xv


19. Pregnancy and Delivery


20. Abortion and Medical Termination of Pregnancy


21. Infant Deaths and Female Feticide


22. Legitimacy, Paternity and


23. Assisted Reproduction


24. Starvation


25. Euthanasia


26. Human Rights, Torture and Medical Ethics


27. Medicolegal Aspects of AIDS


28. Anesthetic and Operative Deaths


29. Medicolegal Aspects of Embalming


30. Forensic Psychiatry


31. Trace Evidences


32. Forensic Science Laboratory


Section 2: Toxicology


33. Toxicology: General Considerations


34. Toxicology: Medicolegal Considerations


35. Corrosive Poisons


36. Inorganic Irritants: Nonmetallic Poisons


37. Inorganic Irritants: Metallic Poisons


38. Organic Irritants: Plants


39. Organic Irritants: Animal Bites and Stings


40. Mechanical Irritants


41. Pesticides


42. Cardiac Poisons


43. Somniferous Poisons


44. Inebriant Poisons


45. Deliriant Poisons


46. Spinal Poisons


47. Peripheral Nerve Poisons


48. Asphyxiants


49. Food Poisoning


50. Drug Dependence and Abuse


51. War Gases