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Forensic medicine
The standard coroners’ textbooks give basic information. See, generally, Jervis, Chap 9, Levine, Chaps 28-35. There are a number of websites (links at the bottom of this page), giving information on forensic medicine, forensic pathology, and specialised areas such as cot deaths (also in the USA).There is also information on post-mortem examinations, on mental health, and on medical litgation (mostly medical negligence).
There is a useful guide to the interpretation of analytical toxicology results by Flanagan in (1998) 35 Annals of Biochemistry 261, reproduced in Levine, Appendix 8, and also on the Leeds University website. Members of the International Association of Toxicologists have access to their own on-line drug concentrations list. For a good selection of links relating to toxicology, click here.
Relevant specialist textbooks in English include:
For a recent study of sudden death during recreational sports activity, see Fornes and Lecomte, The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology 2003, 24(1), 9-16. For an important national survey of sudden, unexpected cardiac or unexplained death in England, see Bowker et al, QJ Med 2003, 96, 269-279. As to deaths following ingestion of ecstasy, see Review of deaths related to taking ecstasy, England & Wales, 1997-2000, in (2003) 326 BMJ 80-81. The concept of 'postural asphyxia' is debated in the literature, at eg Reay et al, Am J Forensic Med Pathol 1992, 13, 90-97; O'Halloran, Am J Forensic Med Pathol 1993, 14, 289-95; Chan et al, Am J Forensic Med Pathol 1998, 19, 201-205; Patel, Am J Forensic Med Pathol 2000, 21, 196-200. A useful set of on-line microscopic slides is made available by the Florida State University College of Medicine.
For a selection of links in forensic medicine from the University of Sheffield, click here. The Royal Society of Medicine also has a useful website, including information on its clinical forensic and legal medicine section and extensive links page, both of which can be accessed by using the site's search facility. The UK Government's Forensic Science Service, The British Association in Forensic Medicine and the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine all have websites.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport published the Report of the Working Group on Human Remains on Friday 14 November 2003.
In February 2004 the Department of Health published a report on "Modernising Pathology Services", which includes sections on autopsy and mortuary services in NHS Trusts. It sees coroners as one of the groups of "clients" of the Managed Pathology Network Core Group. The Working Group to Develop Good Practice Guidance on Modernising Pathology Services did not include any coroner or forensic pathologist.
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