Contents:
Section I : Medical Jurisprudence;
Chapter 1. History of Forensic Medicine;
Chapter 2. Legal Procedure in Criminal Courts;
Chapter 3. Medical Evidence and Medical Witness;
Chapter 4. Legal and Ethical Aspects of Medical Practice;
Chapter 5. Medical Negligence and Consumer Protection Act;
Chapter 6. HIV and AIDS: Legal and Ethical Implications;
Chapter 7. Human Rights and Torture Medicine;
Chapter 8. Medico-Legal Aspects of Death;
Chapter 9. Brain-stem Death and Transplantation of Human Organs Act;
Chapter 10. Personal Identity;
Chapter 11. Personal Identification from Skull ;
Chapter 12. Examination of a Living person for Medico-Legal ;
Chapter 13. Post-mortem Examination ;
Chapter 14. Exhumation;
Chapter 15. Post-mortem Changes and Time Since Death ;
Chapter 16. Post-mortem Artefacts;
Chapter 17. Examination of Biological Stains and Hair;
Chapter 18. Tools of Interrogation;
Chapter 19. The Pathology of Sudden Natural Death ;
Chapter 20. Deaths from Asphyxia ;
Chapter 21. Death from Starvation, Cold and Heat;
Chapter 22. Injuries from Burns, Scalds, Lightning and Electricity ;
Chapter 23. Radiation Injuries;
Chapter 24. Investigation of Deaths Related to Anaesthetic Procedures;
Chapter 25. Injuries by Mechanical Violence;
Chapter 26. Bomb Blast Injuries;
Chapter 27. Medico-Legal Aspects of Wounds;
Chapter 28. Vehicular Traffic Injuries;
Chapter 29. Regional Injuries;
Chapter 30. Impotence, Sterility and Artificial Insemination;
Chapter 31. Virginity, Pregnancy and Delivery ;
Chapter 32. Sexual Offences;
Chapter 33. Legitimacy and Legal Aspects of Marriage Annulment;
Chapter 34. Infanticide ;
Chapter 35. Abortion, Medical Termination of Pregnancy and Female Foeticide ;
Chapter 36: Mental III - Health and Its Medico-Legal Aspects;
Chapter 37: Mechanical Irritants;
Appendices to Section 1;
Appendix 1 Form of Certificate Recommended for Leave or Extension or Communication of Leave and for Fitness;
Appendix 2 The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Rules, 2003;
Appendix 3 The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Regulations, 2003;
Appendix 4 Employee's Compensation Act, 1923. ;
Appendix 5 The Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules, 2016;
Appendix 6 Forensic Acoustics and Recent Trends in Forensic Speaker Identification;
Subject Index.
Section 2: Toxicology;
Chap. 1 Poisons and their Medico-legal Aspects;
Chap. 2 Corrosive Poisons ;
Chap. 3 Inorganic Irritant Poisons (I);
Chap. 4 Inorganic Irritant Poisons (II) ;
Chap. 5 Organic Irritant Poisons (I) ;
Chap. 6 Organic Plant Poisons;
Chap. 7 Organic Irritant Poisons (II);
Chap. 8 Somniferous Cerebral Poisons;
Chap. 9 Inebriant Cerebral Poisons;
Chap. 10 Deliriant Cerebral Poisons;
Chap. 11 Asphyxiants (Irrespirable Gases);
Chap. 12 Mycotoxins ;
Appendix to Section 2;
Appendix 1 Somniferous Cerebral Poisons: Analytical Methodology;
Subject Index.