Legal Medicine 1985 - by Cyril Wecht (Hardcover)

About the Book

In the words of one reviewer Cyril Wecht's Legal Medicine has helped validate and develop the field which it reports. This field is the wide ranging area of medical jurisprudence. This current volume contains a variety of articles written by experts dealing with timely and relevant medical-legal subjects. Legal Medicine contains essays on such topics as blood alcohol concentrations, use of polygraph machines, artificial insemination, and antitrust laws and the physician.

Book Synopsis

In the words of one reviewer Cyril Wecht's Legal Medicine has helped validate and develop the field which it reports. This field is the wide ranging area of medical jurisprudence. This current volume contains a variety of articles written by experts dealing with timely and relevant medical-legal subjects. Legal Medicine contains essays on such topics as blood alcohol concentrations, use of polygraph machines, artificial insemination, and antitrust laws and the physician.

Review Quotes

"This volume consists of eighteen varying articles authored by an impressive cadre of experts in medicine, law, toxicology, pharmacology, forensic sciences and related specialties. The selections, in part at least, may be attributed to the editor's background in medicine and law and his extensive experience as a former coroner and leader or organizations if forensic sciences and legal medicine.... Each article is well-referenced, providing the reader with limited background in a specific subject category with additional resources to supplement the article. Since several selected topics are considered in more than one article and from a number of different perspectives the reader is provided an opportunity to cross-reference these in a comprehensive index.... [It] is recommended as a resource publication, worthy of obtaining for a pharmacy college library as well as for a forensic science laboratory."-American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

?This volume consists of eighteen varying articles authored by an impressive cadre of experts in medicine, law, toxicology, pharmacology, forensic sciences and related specialties. The selections, in part at least, may be attributed to the editor's background in medicine and law and his extensive experience as a former coroner and leader or organizations if forensic sciences and legal medicine.... Each article is well-referenced, providing the reader with limited background in a specific subject category with additional resources to supplement the article. Since several selected topics are considered in more than one article and from a number of different perspectives the reader is provided an opportunity to cross-reference these in a comprehensive index.... [It] is recommended as a resource publication, worthy of obtaining for a pharmacy college library as well as for a forensic science laboratory.?-American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

About the Author

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