Legal Medicine explores the legal issues that arise from government policy influencing medical practice, advances in medical technology, and new disease patterns. Articles by renowned experts cover timely and practical issues as well as academic and philosophical themes. This new volume contains incisive analyses of such topics as the medical and legal considerations in the treatment of AIDS patients, the use of lasers, the Bhopal tragedy, and the use of implantable cardiovascular devices.

Legal Medicine 1986

Wecht, Cyril H.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Praeger

Handling soft tissue injury cases

Lexis

Using new medical evidence to challenge conventional explanations, a forensic pathologist reexamines the murders of the Kennedys, the death of Elvis Presley, and the cases of Jean Harris, Sunny von Bulow, and others. Reprint.

Cause of Death

Biographies & Memoirs

Curriden, Mark

Wecht, Benjamin

True Crime

BERKLEY

A frequent commentator on such television programs as 20/20 and Nightline, a forensic expert produces eyewitness testimony and factual evidence to reveal the truth behind the cases of O. J. Simpson, Vincent Foster, and others. Reprint.

Grave Secrets: Leading Forensic Expert Reveals Startling Truth abt O J Simpson David Koresh Vin

Baden, Dr. Michael M.

Describes the life and death of the young beauty contestant, and argues that she died accidentally while being sexually abused by someone within the household

Who Killed Jonbenet Ramsey? (Onyx True Crime, Je 871)

Bosworth, Charles

Onyx

Using new medical evidence to challenge conventional explanations, a forensic pathologist reexamines the murders of the Kennedys, the death of Elvis Presley, and the cases of Jean Harris, Sunny von Bulow, Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, and others. 60,000 first printing. Tour.

Cause of Death: A Leading Forensic Expert Sets the Record Straight

Dutton

Revealing the shocking truth behind some of America's most sensational cases, a forensic expert discusses the death of White House counsel Vincent Foster, the notorious alien autopsy, David Koresh, O. J. Simpson, and more. 30,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo. Doubleday. Tour.

Grave Secrets: Leading Forensic Expert Reveals Startling Truth abt O J Simpson Vincent Foster D

Crime Scene Investigation

One of the nation's leading forensic pathologists introduces a collection of real-life murder cases and shows how forensic experts draw on the latest techniques and advances to examine the evidence and find the culprits, in an illustrated overview of a wide range of investigative procedures. 15,000 first printing.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Readers' Digest

Medicolegal primer

Hirsh, Harold L.

American College of Legal Medicine Foundation

Each year, too many law enforcement officers die in the line of duty and too many people are killed by the police. Yet, can any of these deaths be avoided? To answer this we must investigate the nature and causes of these deaths in an unbiased and objective manner to highlight and expose weaknesses in policy that can be amended through more rigorous, enlightened, and culture-sensitive training. Examining hypothetical cases drawn from the most prevalent and typical officer-involved deaths in recent years, Investigation and Prevention of Officer-Involved Deaths reviews the circumstances, relevant discussions, and critical issues for each case type wherein law enforcement officers have had to respond outside of their usual and trained experience and where the final outcome was the death of either the suspect, an innocent bystander, or the officer. With a focus on crime scene investigation and the collection and preservation of the relevant forensic evidence, the book outlines appropriate crime scene procedures for each situation and lists potential categories of forensic evidence to be searched for, collected, and submitted to the forensic laboratory for analysis. The authors discuss postmortem protocols, including autopsy reports, toxicological analyses, and other appropriate investigative findings. They then examine policy and training protocols for each, look at the use and potential benefit of less-lethal weapons, and pose the critical question of "what would you do if you were the police officer." Through the serious study of each of the categories presented in this book, police officers and other groups of law enforcement officials can more fully comprehend and appreciate the societal significance of such cases. The more aware, sensitive, and well-educated are officers of the law, the more dignified, humane, and safe are the communities they are sworn to serve.

Investigation and Prevention of Officer-Involved Deaths

Lee, Henry C.

van Blaricom, D.P.

Tucker, Mel

CRC-Press

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