Forensic Emergency Medicine - Hardcover

Jonathan S. Olshaker

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0781731445 ISBN 13: 9780781731447

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001

Synopsis

Written by the foremost experts in forensic clinical medicine, this volume is the first book in this new subspecialty. The text provides the information emergency physicians and residents need about the medicolegal aspects of treating victims of sexual assault, child abuse, elder abuse, and domestic violence. It offers detailed guidelines on interviewing and examining the victim and collecting, preserving, and documenting evidence for legal proceedings. This text includes an insightful chapter on expert testimony written by a physician with a law degree, as well as a chapter on forensic photography and a chapter by an FBI agent on perpetrators.

A Brandon-Hill recommended title.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0781731445
• ISBN 13: 9780781731447
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320