Forensic Pathology
Medicolegal investigation of death is the most crucial and significant function of the medical examiner within the criminal justice system. The medical examiner is primarily concerned with violent, sudden, unex pected, and suspicious deaths and is responsible for determining the c ause and manner of death, identifying the deceased, determining the ap proximate time of death and injury, collecting evidence from the body, issuing the death certificate, and documenting these events through a n official autopsy report. The basis of the medicolegal investigation is forensic pathology. Written for both medical and investigative pro fessionals, Forensic Pathology, Second Edition presents an overview of medicolegal investigative systems. Completely updated, the book exami nes investigative techniques and procedures that lead to obtaining acc urate conclusions of death by homicide, accident, or suicide.
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