Forensic Clinical Medicine: Theory and Practice

Author: Deng Zhenhua
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: This book was written by more than 40 experts from relevant disciplines in China. It not only inherits the mature knowledge of predecessors but also presents its own views towards future development. The book elaborates on the scope and tasks of forensic clinical research from a deeper level, establishing the standards for injury diagnosis and determining disability levels based on modern medicine, while striving to adopt new diagnostic techniques in clinical medicine to promote more scientific and fair conclusions. The book is divided into thirty-four chapters. Chapters 1 to 15 systematically introduce the basic theories of forensic clinical medicine and the fundamental principles of live injury and disability assessment, traffic forensic medicine, the causation theory of forensic clinical medicine, forensic imaging, personal injury compensation, medical disputes, and medical negligence, etc. Chapters 16 to 31 discuss trauma characteristics and related forensic clinical medicine assessment principles according to each human body system, while also introducing aspects of abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, and drug abuse dependence. Chapters 32 to 34 discuss forensic psychiatry in the context of criminal law psychiatry, civil law psychiatry, and mental disorders and criminology, respectively. This book was written by more than 40 experts from relevant disciplines in China. It not only inherits the mature knowledge of predecessors but also presents its own views towards future development. The book elaborates on the scope and tasks of forensic clinical research from a deeper level, establishing the standards for injury diagnosis and determining disability levels based on modern medicine, while striving to adopt new diagnostic techniques in clinical medicine to promote more scientific and fair conclusions. The book is divided into thirty-four chapters. Chapters 1 to 15 systematically introduce the basic theories of forensic clinical medicine and the fundamental principles of live injury and disability assessment, traffic forensic medicine, the causation theory of forensic clinical medicine, forensic imaging, personal injury compensation, medical disputes, and medical negligence, etc. Chapters 16 to 31 discuss trauma characteristics and related forensic clinical medicine assessment principles according to each human body system, while also introducing aspects of abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, and drug abuse dependence. Chapters 32 to 34 discuss forensic psychiatry in the context of criminal law psychiatry, civil law psychiatry, and mental disorders and criminology, respectively.