A Textbook of Medical Jurisprudence & Toxicology

SECTION 1: 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 Purposes
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 Ill-Health and its Medico-Legal Aspects
Chapter 37: Mechanical Injuries

Appendices to Section 1
Appendix 1: Form of Certificate Recommended for Leave or Extension or Commutation 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

SECTION 2: TOXICOLOGY

Chapter 1: Poisons and Their Medico-Legal Aspects
Chapter 2: Corrosive Poisons
Chapter 3: Inorganic Irritant Poisons (I)
Chapter 4: Inorganic Irritant Poisons (II)
Chapter 5: Organic Irritant Poisons (I)
Chapter 6: Organic Plant Poisons
Chapter 7: Organic Irritant Poisons (III)
Chapter 8: Somniferous Cerebral Poisons
Chapter 9: Inebriant Cerebral Poisons
Chapter 10: Deliriant Cerebral Poisons
Chapter 11: Asphyxiants (Irrespirable Gases)
Chapter 12: Mycotoxins

Appendix to Section 2
Appendix 1: Somniferous Cerebral Poisons: Analytical Methodology
Subject Index