About Book
The e book is a whole revitalization of its predecessor posted round a decade ago. The publisher’s effort to reprint the preceding version previously explains the reputation of the book. However, as an creator I felt the want to revise the textual content on account of speedy advances and tendencies in forensic lookup globally.
This version was once made feasible by using the blended efforts of almost sixty extraordinary academicians who served as the honorary evaluate panel individuals and contributors of this book.
The contributors helped me in enhancing the contents via offering new information, chapters, photos and such different materials, whilst the evaluation panel did the indispensable evaluation, appended latest advances, checked the language and made vital adjustments in the text.
Dr Antony Busuttil, Regius Professor of Forensic Medicine of the University of Edinburgh; Dr S Subramaniam, Forensic Pathologist, Dept. of Pathology, Kuwait University, Kuwait; Dr L Thirunnavakarasu, Retired Professor and Head, Dept of Forensic Medicine, Victoria Hospital, Bangalore Medical College and St. John’s Medical College, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Dr Alexander F Khakha, Professor and Head, Dept of Forensic Medicine, Vardhaman Medical College, Safdar Jung Hospital, New Delhi, India and Dr B Santha Kumar, Professor and Head, Dept of Forensic Medicine, Govt. Stanley Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India are 5 elite gents and the quality of my friends, whose selfless helps and outstanding efforts have been imperative in revising this book.
Besides, one of my extremely good postgraduate students–Dr Ritesh G Menezes, presently the Assoc. Professor of Forensic Medicine, at Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India has furnished enduring and incredible help in each and every segment of this venture.
The first version with two components and 26 chapters has now been converted into 5 components and forty concise and fantastic chapters packed with latest scientific advances.
This version additionally consists of Appendices with 4 essential addenda on Question Bank, Syllabus and Varsity Examination Aid, Laws of Relevance to Medical Profession in India and, Starvation and Neglect and Law. I have prevented too many case stories, historic anecdotes and prices in this book, which I felt have been superfluous and digressed from an tutorial factor of view.
The important center of attention of this over 600 pages version has been to contain applicable problem depend masking the syllabus endorsed by using the Medical Council of India the usage of simple, understandable language. Over 1500 references, seven-hundred photographs, five hundred drawings, charts and tables determined in this e book will make the complex principle of the situation extraordinarily convenient to apprehend for each reader.
Especially college students will no longer solely excel in examinations however additionally reap a thorough, usable expertise of the concern for future expert life. M/s Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India has posted this e book with outstanding care the usage of worldwide fashionable printing technologies.
They have designed an pleasing cover, and utilized the electricity of colored printing to create clear and lovely pages so that analyzing of this e book can be made satisfying and interesting.
Suggestions, positive criticisms and ideas for enhancing this e book are greater than welcome. Kindly electronic mail them to prof.nkgr@gmail.com I am certain that the forensic panorama furnished in this version will draw the interest of each and every reader and generate greater response than the preceding version from students, professionals, clinicians, usual practitioners, police and regulation officers alike.
Forensic Medicine and its strategies have been in exercise down the a long time in history, however its scientific fame and the improvement as a single self-discipline are of solely current origin. It accurately now constitutes an necessary section of undergraduate and postgraduate clinical curricula.
Modern Forensic Medicine, with an goal of making the challenge area of expertise greater wider, realistic and to evolve into a tertiary specialty, has been re-introduced beneath 5 primary subdivisions or more recent taxonomy, viz, History and Developments in Forensic Medicine, Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic Pathology, Clinical Forensic Medicine and Forensic Toxicology as liked globally.
In this e book an strive is made to introduce these more recent ideas in India, as permitted and proposed with the aid of the Medical Council of India (Gazette of India, May, 17, 1997).
The 26 chapters introduced in this edition, amalgamating all these 5 predominant subdivisions of the situation specialty, no longer solely harvest of my non-public experiences won from the dwelling and useless cases, I have been concerned as medicolegal expert, but additionally combination with the cream of know-how gathered from innumerable references in forensic literature.
As a trainer in Forensic Medicine over the remaining two a long time I have been feeling the want for a well-illustrated textbook, with unique and unique information. With brief and lucid textual content and almost 300 coloured photographs, 200 B/W photographs, line drawings and easy float charts, and one hundred tables rendering effortless understanding, recollection and copy in the examinations by means of scientific students, I experience this textbook is the first of its variety in India.
Perhaps this e book should additionally cater to the wants of each scientific practitioner, investigating police officer, lawyer, regulation imposing authority, court docket and forensic scientist. My earnest hope is that this new e book will locate favorable response from all scientific college students and different involved team of readers and discover a appropriate vicinity in Forensic literature.
