Forensic Medicine category: 194 books
Beating Drug Tests and Defending Positive Results
A Toxicologist’s Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
A majority of the Fortune 500 Companies implement some practice of workplace drug testing in their company policies. This practice was first initiated by President Ronald Reagan when he ordered federal agencies to drug test federal employees involved in sensitive positions as well as positions involving...
The Criminal Act
The Role and Influence of Routine Activity Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
This volume provides a unique collection of essays in honour of the work of Marcus Felson and his notable contribution to routine activity theory, environmental criminology and the discipline more broadly.
Chapter 5 of this book is open access under a CC BY license.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2002
It is at least a decade since scientists turned their imaginations to creating new compact, portable test instruments and self-contained test kits that could be used to analyze urine and saliva for alcohol, drugs, and their metabolites. Although the potential applications for such tests at the site...
by Stuart Lair Houser
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
After 17 years of private practice as a cardiovascular surgeon, my partners qu- tionedtherationalityofmydecisiontoleavetheclinicalpracticebehindandbecome acardiovascular pathologist. Infact,theirdisbeliefofmyintentiontomakethe“leap of faith” was understandable. For a surgeon, the operating room...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
This authoritative text/reference presents a comprehensive review of algorithms and techniques for face recognition (FR), with an emphasis on systems that can be reliably used in operational environments. Insights are provided by an international team of pre-eminent experts into the processing of...
Interface
A Guide for Professionals Supporting the Criminal Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
A wide variety of professionals find themselves intimately involved in the criminal justice system; firefighters, emergency medical providers, nurses, physicians, public health personnel, environmental professionals, public works personnel, and many others. No previous work has attempted to address...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
How can controversy promote mutual respect in analytical psychology?
Analytical psychology is a broad church, and influences areas such as literature, cultural studies, and religion. However, in common with psychoanalysis, there are many different schools of thought and practice which have resulted...
by Javier Grandini González, Carlos Carriedo Rico, María del Consuelo Gómez García
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Medicina forense es una obra que ofrece información clara, concreta y accesible de los temas más importantes para la práctica de esta especialidad médica. Incluye historia de la medicina legal, tanatología, traumatología, asfixiología, sexología, embarazo no deseado, psiquiatría, odontología...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The papers in this section on the legal aspects of nursing can be divided into two parts: (a) the rights and responsibilities of nurses, patients, and the medical system and (b) treatment, with its legal ramifications. How does one decide whether patients' rights or the health professional's rights...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
This atlas of postmortem angiography provides a summary of techniques that have been developed and used in order to visualize the human vascular system. The indications, advantages, limitations, and pitfalls of the different techniques are explained in detail through the use of examples from real...
Essentials of Autopsy Practice
Advances, Updates and Emerging Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
This book covers new and exciting topics which have emerged in the area of autopsy recently, including the three different post-mortem CT-angiography systems currently available to practitioners in this field; a highly topical chapter on the role of genetic abnormalities in the handling of drugs within...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2002
In Buprenorphine Therapy of Opiate Addiction, participating physicians and toxicologists summarize and evaluate their experiences with five years of intensive buprenorphine therapy. They cover all aspects of its use, including the pharmacology, conditions of delivery, risks from use with other psychoactive...
Personal Injury and Damage Ascertainment under Civil Law
State-of-the-Art International Guidelines
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
This volume serves to provide an international overview of personal injury compensation in different geographical areas (15 countries already included), with a special focus on the methods used to ascertain the injury and the related damages. It also goes on to clarify the logical and methodological...
Begutachtung im Verkehrsrecht
Fahrtüchtigkeit - Fahreignung - traumatomechanische Unfallrekonstruktion - Bildidentifikation
Language: German
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Die Aufgabe des Gutachters im Gerichtsverfahren ist es, Juristen die Fachkenntnisse zu vermitteln, die für die Beurteilung eines Sachverhalts notwendig sind. Um diesen Vermittlungsprozess im Bereich der Verkehrsmedizin zu unterstützen, haben die Autoren das wissenschaftliche Basiswissen verständlich...