Clinical Forensic Medicine 2nd ed.

Forensic Medicine is the medical specialty that covers any matter where medicine and the law meet. A forensic clinician must be a specilist in many areas, able to make a medical assessment of the accused and or their victim, care for those in custody, provide occupational health advice to the police, and pass opinion on the work of others in the same field. This text is the definitive guide to all such practitioners in medicine, be they police surgeons, forensic physicians, accident and emergency specialists, paediatricians, gynaecologists or genito-urinary physicians.

This is a unique and complete text, written by experts, providing facts and general principles applicable to jurisdictions throughout the world. No practitioner, legal, medical or other, required to present or assess evidence in court should be without a copy.