15th Edition
Simpson's Forensic Medicine
The Fifteenth Edition of Simpson's Forensic Medicine provides an overview of all that is relevant in practice at the interface between medicine and law. Its long-standing reputation as one of the world's leading introductory texts in the field of forensic & legal medicine is reflected by easy-to-read and informative text, complemented by numerous colour images, tables and figures.
Identifying current forensic & legal medicine practice, the comprehensive coverage encompasses all aspects of forensic pathology, clinical forensic medicine, legal medicine and highlights contemporary topics such as non-fatal strangulation, deaths in custody, safeguarding, intimate-partner violence as well as subjects such as asphyxial deaths, the impact of heat, cold and electrical trauma and immersion and drowning.
Forensic & legal medicine is intimately involved with the criminal and civil justice systems including family law. Forensic & legal medicine and forensic science are closely linked and for all those whose work brings them into contact with such subjects, Simpson’s provides an immediate source of accessible knowledge. Students and practitioners in such settings can understand how their area of work or study interrelates and interacts with others in different settings. Simpson's is, therefore, a textbook of choice for those studying forensic & legal medicine or forensic science, and for forensic practitioners, law students, law enforcement personnel, healthcare professionals and judges, coroners and other legal professionals.
Medicine, Science and the Law
1 Principles of forensic practice
2 The ethics of medical practice
3 Medicolegal aspects of death
Forensic Pathology
4 Violence in society, medicolegal investigation of death and the autopsy
5 The appearance of the body after death
7 Deaths and injury in infancy
The pathology of trauma
8 Assessment, classification and documentation of injury
10 Regional injuries and patterns of injury
Common topics in forensic pathology
11 Pressure to the neck & asphyxia deaths
12 Heat, cold & electrical trauma
Clinical Forensic Medicine
14 Identification of the living and the dead
15 Restraint and control techniques
16 Police custodial healthcare
17 Sexual assault and genitoanal injury and female genital mutilation
18 Safeguarding and protection of children and vulnerable adults
20 Torture, and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
21 Principles of forensic science and crime scene investigation
Biography
Professor Jason Payne-James, LLM, MSc, FFFLM, FRCS (Eng. & Edin.), FRCP, FCSFS, RCPathME, FFCFM(RCPA), DFM, LBIPP. Specialist in Forensic & Legal Medicine & Consultant Forensic Physician. Honorary Clinical Professor, William Harvey Research Institute, Centre for Clinical Pharmacology and Precision Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London. Lead Medical Examiner, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich. President, European Council of Legal & Forensic Medicine. Director, Forensic Health Services Ltd, Southminster, United Kingdom
Richard Jones, BSc(Hons), MBBS, PgCUTL, FRCPath, FHEA, MCIEH, MFFLM, MRSPH. Clinical Senior Lecturer in Forensic Pathology, Wales Institute of Forensic Medicine. Cardiff University School of Medicine. College of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Cardiff. Home Office-Registered Forensic Pathologist, Honorary Consultant Forensic Pathologist, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Cardiff, United Kingdom
