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Self Assessment and Review of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, by Anil Aggrawal, Softcover, 9.5" x 7.0".
Peepee Publishers, 7/31, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, Post Box: 7243, New Delhi- 110002 (India). Publication Date May 30, 2006. xvi + 442 pages, ISBN 81-88867-85-3. Price Rs. 295.00.
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This book was published on May 30, 2006. It had the following chapters:
PART 1. FORENSIC MEDICINE
SECTION 1. GENERAL ASPECTS
Chapters:
(1) Introduction and legal procedure
(2) Law in relation to medical men; Medical ethics
(3) Personal identity
(4) Identification in mass disasters
(5) Medicolegal autopsy
(6) Examination of decomposed bodies, mutilated bodies, fragmentary remains and bones
(7) Exhumation
SECTION 2. THANATOLOGY ( Study of death in all its aspects)
Chapters:
(8) The pathophysiology of death (including thanatology, earlier concept of the modes of death, latest concept of the moment of death, suspended animation, somatic and molecular death, negative autopsy, obscure autopsy, sudden and unexpected death)
(9) Post-mortem changes and time since death (including presumption of death and survivorship)
SECTION 3. INJURIES AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE
Chapters:
(10) Injuries:Classification and Medicolegal aspects
(11) Mechanical injuries (including torture)
(12) Firearm injuries
(13) Thermal injuries
(14) Explosion injuries
(15) Electrocution, atmospheric lightening, radiation injury
(16) Regional injuries
(17) Traffic accidents
SECTION 4. DEATHS FROM OTHER CAUSES
Chapters
(18) Deaths from asphyxia
(19) Deaths from starvation
(20) Anaesthetic and operative deaths
(21) Hypothermia
(22) Deaths due to heatstroke and related causes
SECTION 5. MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS RELATING TO SEX AND MARRIAGE
Chapters
(23) Impotence and sterility
(24) Virginity, pregnancy and delivery
(25) Sexual offences, and sex perversions
(26) Abortion
(27) Infant deaths including battered baby syndrome
SECTION 6. FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
Chapters
(28) Forensic psychiatry
SECTION 7. FORENSIC SCIENCE
Chapters
(29) Forensic examination of biological fluids, stains, trace evidence and other material (hair etc)
PART 2. TOXICOLOGY
SECTION 8. GENERAL PRINCIPLES RELATING TO POISONS
Chapters
(30) Introduction, law relating to poisons and general principles
(31) General principles of treatment
SECTION 9. CORROSIVE POISONS
Chapters
(32) Acids
(33) Alkalis
SECTION 10. IRRITANT POISONS
Chapters
(34) Non-metallic irritants
(35) Insecticides and weed-killers
(36) Metallic irritants
(37) Vegetable poisons
(38) Animal poisons
(39) Food poisoning and poisonous foods
SECTION 11. POISONS ACTING ON THE BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD
Chapters
(40) Somniferous poisons
(41) Inebriant poisons
(42) Deliriant poisons
(43) Spinal poisons
(44) Peripheral nerve poisons
SECTION 12. POISONS ACTING ON OTHER PARTS OF THE BODY
Chapters
(45) Cardiac poisons
(46) Toxic gases
(47) War gases and chemical warfare
(48) Miscellaneous poisons (including methemoglobinaemia)
(49) Drug dependence and drug habituation
(50) Review Test papers
This book has a total of 1256 questions - 811 in Forensic Medicine section and 445 in Toxicology section). The book also has a total of 79 figures and 46 tables (58 figures and 31 tables in Forensic Medicine section and 21 figures and 15 tables in toxicology section.)
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