ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Page Count: 1

A Review of Forensic Medicine: A Guide to Principles, 2nd Edition
Henry, TE
Deputy chief medical examiner, Forensic Sciences Section, Arizona Health Sciences Center, Arizona

Abstract

This is second edition of a text originally published in 1975. In the preface the authors state “A scientific evaluation of this discipline must discard the medico-legal mythology that still pervades much forensic thinking, writing and practice.” With this concept in mind, portions of the text leave the impression that status thymicolymphaticus can be a legitimate cause of death, fat emboli may not be clinically significant, and instantaneous cadaveric rigidity can occur in some natural deaths.

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Paper ID: JFS11801J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS11801J
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