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Legal and Forensic Medicine

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Roy G. Beran

    1. Chatswood, Australia

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  • Comprehensive: unique international perspective on legal and forensic medicine
  • Practical approach: applications in varied fields, such as health law, international aid, criminal and civil law, sports medicine and military medicine
  • Defines the place of legal medicine as a specialized discipline?

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Table of contents (102 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-31
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  2. Definitions and Concepts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Clinical Bioethics and Its Interface with Legal Medicine

      • Miriam Piven Cotler
      Pages 3-17

    3. Contravention of Statute Obligations

      • Paul Baram
      Pages 19-29

    4. Legal Medicine in Adult Medical Practice in Australia

      • Allan Hunt
      Pages 31-44

    5. Legal Medicine and Dentistry

      • Russell Lain, Jane Taylor
      Pages 45-62

    6. Concepts in Medical Law and Legal Medicine

      • Rafael Aguiar-Guevara
      Pages 63-78

    7. Legal and Forensic Medicine in Paediatrics

      • Sandra Johnson
      Pages 79-89

    8. Legal and Forensic Medicine in Geriatrics

      • Beverley Ferres
      Pages 91-101

    9. Legal Medicine and Medical Law

      • Roy G. Beran
      Pages 103-108

    10. Evidence-Based Medicine and the Law

      • Ian Freckelton SC
      Pages 109-117

    11. Legal Medicine and Criminal Law: Australia

      • Steven Yannoulidis
      Pages 119-142

    12. Forensic Medicine: A Clinician’s View

      • Don Buchanan
      Pages 143-155

    13. Law, Health Law and Science of Health Law

      • Chongqi Wu
      Pages 157-172

  3. International Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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    2. Legal Medicine in Turkey

      • Berna Arda, Ahmet Aciduman
      Pages 175-192

    3. Teaching Medical Law: The Genesis and Directions of Legal Medicine in Australia

      • Ruth E. Blackham
      Pages 193-195

    4. Legal Medicine in the Administration of Health Care

      • Erwin Loh
      Pages 197-222

    5. Health-Care System Regulation in Brazil and in Great Britain

      • Ivandro Aguiar Campos
      Pages 223-243

    6. Medical and Health Law in the Czech Republic

      • Tomáš Holčapek
      Pages 245-259
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About this book

This is a comprehensive reference text that examines the current state of Legal Medicine, which encompasses Forensic Medicine, in the 21st century. It examines the scope of both legal and forensic medicine, its application and study and has adopted a wide ranging approach including multinational authorship. It reviews the differences between and similarities of forensic and legal medicine, the need for academic qualification, the applications to many and varied fields including international aid, military medicine, health law and the application of medical knowledge to both criminal law and tort/civil law, sports medicine and law, gender and age related factors from obstetrics through to geriatrics and palliative care as well as cultural differences exploring the Christian/Judeo approach compared with that within Islamic cultures, Buddhism and Hinduism. The book looks at practical applications of legal medicine within various international and intercultural frameworks.  This is a seminal authoritative text in legal and forensic medicine. It has a multi-author and multinational approach which crosses national boundaries. There is a great interest in the development of health law and legal medicine institutes around the world and this text comes in on the ground floor of this burgeoning discipline and provides the foundation text for many courses, both undergraduate and postgraduate. It defines the place of legal medicine as a specialized discipline.​

Editors and Affiliations

  • Chatswood, Australia

    Roy G. Beran

About the editor

Professor Beran is a renowned scientist in forensic medicine.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Legal and Forensic Medicine

  • Editors: Roy G. Beran

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32338-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-32337-9Published: 05 September 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-32338-6Published: 31 July 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXI, 1845

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Forensic Science, Forensic Medicine, Medical Law

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