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Courtroom Medicine: Death

Examines medical facts of death and the techniques of prosecuting or defending resulting actions.


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    Examines medical facts of death and the techniques of prosecuting or defending resulting actions. Discusses in detail, many injuries that often lead to death.

    •  Cause (legal causation), determination (brain death), time (survivorship determinations)
    •  Full explanations of autopsy procedures, exhumation, the death certificate and laboratory and toxicologic procedures
    •  Relationship of death to intervening factors (medical treatment or disease)
    •  Annotations, bibliography, illustrations, charts and index

    First published in 1966.

    3 Volumes, looseleaf; updated two times a year with revisions and supplements.


    The eBook versions of this title feature links to Lexis Advance for further legal research options.

    VOLUME 3

    PART 1: GENERAL PROBLEMS OF PROOF

    Chapter 1 What is Death?
    Chapter 1A Estimation of Time of Death
    Chapter 1B The Brain and Death
    Chapter 2 Medical Aspects of Coma
    Chapter 2A The Forensic Pathologist as an Expert in Civil Cases
    Chapter 3 The Death Certificate
    Chapter 4 Selecting the Expert Witness
    Chapter 4A Legal Considerations in Autopsy Procedures
    Chapter 5 The Autopsy: A Forensic Tool
    Chapter 5A Identification of Human Skeletal Remains
    Chapter 5B Forensic Odontology
    Chapter 5C DNA Profiling
    Chapter 6 Legal Aspects of Autopsy and Exhumation
    Chapter 7-8 Reserved
    Chapter 9 Use of Demonstrative Evidence
    Chapter 10 Interpreting Medical Records
    Chapter 11 Reserved

    PART 2: SPECIAL PROBLEMS OF PROOF
    Chapter 12 Establishing Proximate Cause
    Chapter 13 Emergency Treatment
    Chapter 13A Complications of Blood Transfusions
    Chapter 14 Death Due to Intervening Disease
    Chapter 15 Death from Head Injury
    Chapter 15A Decorticate and Decerebrate States
    Chapter 16 Periods of Latent Symptomology
    Chapter 16A Care of the Cancer Patient
    Chapter 16B Lung Cancer and Smoking

    VOLUME 3A

    Chapter 17 Myocardial Infarction
    Chapter 17A Congestive Heart Failure
    Chapter 18 Blunt Trauma
    Chapter 18A Penetrating Trauma
    Chapter 18B Gunshot Wounds
    Chapter 18C Assessment and Management of Homicidal Intent
    Chapter 19 Sudden Death--Cause or Effect?
    Chapter 20 Undetermined Cause of Death
    Chapter 21 Differential Diagnosis
    Chapter 22 Accidental Death
    Chapter 22A Fat Embolism
    Chapter 22B Pulmonary Embolism
    Chapter 22C Death from Respiratory Conditions
    Chapter 22D Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
    Chapter 22E Physician-Assisted Suicide
    Chapter 23 Suicide vs. Accidental Death
    Chapter 23A Forensic Toxicology
    Chapter 23B Substance of Abuse
    Chapter 23C Assessment and Management of Suicidal Intent
    Chapter 24 Postmortem Determination of Alcohol Intoxication
    Chapter 24A Drinking, Driving and Chemical Testing
    Chapter 25 Deaths Associated with Anesthesia and Surgery

    VOLUME 3B

    Chapter 26 Child Abuse
    Chapter 27 Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
    Chapter 27A Shaken-Baby Syndrome
    Chapter 28 Wrongful Death of the Unborn Child
    Chapter 28A Domestic Violence: Spouse/Partner Abuse and Elder Abuse
    Chapter 28B Congenital Anomalies
    Chapter 29 Toxic Shock Syndrome
    Chapter 30 Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
    Chapter 31 Death Due to Radiation
    Chapter 32 Asphyxiation
    Chapter 33 Death from Burns
    Chapter 33A Death from Electric Injuries
    Chapter 34 Anaphylaxis
    Chapter 35 Failure of Life Support
    Chapter 36 Central Nervous System Infections
    Chapter 36A Hospital Infections
    Chapter 36B Toxicology by Systems
    Chapter 37 Death from Abdominal Injuries
    Chapter 38 Alzheimer's Disease
    Chapter 39 Parkinson's Disease

    PART 3: MEDICO-LEGAL ANNOTATIONS
    Damages Awards--Chart
    Appendix: Glossary of Pertinent Medical Terms
    Legal Bibliography
    Index

     

    Marshall Houts


    The late Marshall Houts wrote prolifically on law and medicine. He was the original author of Lawyers' Guide to Medical Proof; Courtroom Medicine: Death; Proving Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis; The Rules of Evidence; Cyclopedia of Sudden, Violent and Unexplained Death; Art of Advocacy: Appeals; Art of Advocacy: Cross-Examination of Medical Experts; and others. His book "Where Death Delights" was credited with inspiring the television series "Quincy, M.E." The series, about a Los Angeles County medical examiner who did his own detective work, starred Jack Klugman and ran from 1976 to 1983. Mr. Houts was an F.B.I. agent in Brazil and Cuba before shifting to the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency, during World War II. He was born in Chattanooga, Tenn., the son of a Methodist minister. He graduated from Brevard College in North Carolina and the University of Minnesota Law School. Mr. Houts worked as a lawyer and a municipal-court judge in Minnesota and then in Los Angeles. He taught law at U.C.L.A., Michigan State University and Pepperdine University, and forensic pathology in the medical school at the University of California at Irvine.

    Irwin Haut


    The late Irwin Haut was an Orthodox rabbi and practicing attorney in the United States. He was a co-author of Courtroom Medicine: Death.

     

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