| FORENSIC MEDICINE: AN AID TO CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION. | |
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PMID: 14269437 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Forensic medicine is medicine as applied to the problems of the law. The origins of both are hidden in the mists of antiquity, dating from the beginnings of family and tribal life. Recorded human history goes back for 6000 years. Sumeria, Babylon and Egypt all contributed to the development of forensic medicine. Imhotep was probably the first real medicolegal expert. Hippocrates, the Greek physician, and Galen, the Roman, made considerable contributions. Little advance was made during the millenium of the Dark Ages. But Renaissance medicine gave this branch of medicine an impetus in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and in the twentieth, interest in forensic medicine is worldwide. The physician, the coroner, the pathologist, the medical specialist and the forensic laboratory contribute to the investigation of crimes against the person, and to the solution of such problems as identification, untoward deaths, apparent drowning and many others. |
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Authors:
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W J DEADMAN |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Canadian Medical Association journal Volume: 92 ISSN: 0008-4409 ISO Abbreviation: Can Med Assoc J Publication Date: 1965 Mar |
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Created Date: 1965-06-01 Completed Date: 1996-12-01 Revised Date: 2010-06-22 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0414110 Medline TA: Can Med Assoc J Country: CANADA |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 666-70 Citation Subset: OM |
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Abortion, Criminal* Alcoholic Intoxication* Death, Sudden* Drowning* Forensic Medicine* History* Homicide* Infanticide* |
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