Journal Published Online: 01 September 1988
Volume 33, Issue 5

A Review of

CODEN: JFSCAS

Abstract

Pathology, as the study of disease, effectively incorporates a part of all the various subdisciplines of medicine. In a similar manner, forensic pathology is the application of law to the study and interpretation of disease and injury. As any busy forensic pathologist will attest, the practice of this specialty transcends the usual public image of dealing solely with violent deaths, as medicolegal problems are increasingly apparent at virtually all levels of medicine, and it is often the forensic pathologist who has both the accumulated experience and the willingness to address such questions. Consequently, as any good physician is wont to do, the pathologist continues to learn, grow professionally, and adapt to the constantly evolving scope of medicine in a technological age.

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Sperry, K
University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM
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Stock #: JFS12570J
ISSN: 0022-1198
DOI: 10.1520/JFS12570J