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Forensic Sciences

Dozens of experts discuss the sciences relevant tocriminal and civil litigation and the law concerning theiruse in the courtroom.


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    Forensic Sciences features dozens of experts discussing the sciences relevant to criminal and civil litigation and the law concerning their use in the courtroom. Coverage includes:

    • Expert testimony and scientific evidence--admissibility, scope, impeachment, hypothetical questions, privilege, and more
    • Forensic pathology
    • Forensic anthropology and odontology
    • Forensic engineering
    • Forensic toxicology and pharmacology
    • Antemortem and postmortem alcohol determinations
    • Firearm identification
    • Investigation of explosions
    • AIDS: legal and medical considerations
    • DNA typing--criminal and civil applications
    • Illustrative testimony
    • Index of experts
    • Forensic psychiatry and psychology
    • Computer imaging
    • Auto accident investigation

    First published in 1981.

    5 Volumes; Looseleaf; updated with revisions.

    Chapter 1 Admissibility of Expert Testimony
    Chapter 2 Certainty of Expert Opinion
    Chapter 3 Invasion of the Province of the Jury
    Chapter 4 Weight of Medical Expert Opinion Evidence
    Chapter 5 Hypothetical Questions and Disclosure of Facts Underlying Opinion
    Chapter 6 Basis of Opinion Evidence
    Chapter 7 Scope of Medical Expert Testimony and Standard of Care
    Chapter 8 Privileged Communications and Confidentiality
    Chapter 9 Causation
    Chapter 10 Impeachment of Expert Testimony
    Chapter 11 Discovery and Inspection
    Chapter 12 Demonstrative Evidence
    Chapter 12A Computer Animation for Lawyers
    Chapter 12B Computer Graphics in the Forensic Sciences
    Chapter 12C Crime Scene Reconstruction Using Real-Time Interactive 3D Technology
    Chapter 13 Use of Treatises and Texts
    Chapter 14 Preparation of the Medical Expert
    Chapter 15 Qualification of the Expert Witness
    Chapter 16 Compelling Medical Expert to Testify
    Chapter 17 Compensation of Experts
    Chapter 18 Court Appointment of Experts
    Chapter 19 Admissibility of Scientific Evidence Under the Post-Daubert Rules
    Chapter 20 The Right to Die and Physician-Assisted Suicide
    Chapter 21 Expert Witnesses in Sex Crimes Cases
    Chapter 22 Clinical Forensic Medicine
    Chapter 22A Investigation of Operative and Postoperative Deaths
    Chapter 22B Forensic Nursing
    Chapter 23 Forensic Pathologist as Expert in Civil Case
    Chapter 23A Pathology of Electrical and Lightning Injuries
    Chapter 23B Soil Microbial Ecology as Forensic Taphonomy
    Chapter 23C Role of Burn Surgeon in Medicolegal Aspects of Abuse by Burning
    Chapter 24 Medicolegal Problems in Determining Cause and Manner of Death in Vehicular Accidents
    Chapter 24A RESERVED
    Chapter 24B Automobile Accident Investigations: A Progressive and Evolving Science
    Chapter 25 Use of Forensic Pathology in Defending Criminal Cases
    Chapter 25A Forensic Autopsy Protocol
    Chapter 25B Time of Death
    Chapter 25C Forensic (Medicocriminal) Entomology--Applications in Medicolegal Investigations
    Chapter 25D Blunt Force Trauma
    Chapter 25E Role of Coroner/Medical Examiner After Disaster
    Chapter 25F Childhood Head Trauma--Clinical Approach
    Chapter 25G Childhood Head Trauma--Forensic Approach
    Chapter 25H The Metabolic Autopsy
    Chapter 26 Autopsy Law and Procedures
    Chapter 26A The Battered Child Syndrome
    Chapter 26B Human Research and Experimentation
    Chapter 26C The Documentation of Human Rights Abuses
    Chapter 26D Criminalistics--Science and Philosophy
    Chapter 26E Sexual Molestation of Children
    Chapter 26F Forensic Investigations of Human Rights Violations, Abuse, Mass Graves, and War Crimes
    Chapter 27 Forensic Anthropology
    Chapter 27A The Examination of Skeletal Remains
    Chapter 27B Postmortem Change in Human and Animal Remains and Effects of Freezing
    Chapter 27C Cranial Photographic Superimposition
    Chapter 27D Forensic Imaging Production and Utilization in Medicolegal Death Investigations
    Chapter 27E Telemedicine: Forensic and Medicolegal Aspects
    Chapter 28 Forensic Odontology
    Chapter 28A The Evidence Provided by New Medical Imaging Technology
    Chapter 28B Forensic Phonetics
    Chapter 28C Forensic Speaker Identification
    Chapter 28D Image Processing by Computer Analysis
    Chapter 28E Facial Reproduction
    Chapter 28F Forensic Imaging--Methods and Techniques
    Chapter 29 Forensic Analysis of Biological Evidence
    Chapter 29A Adverse Effects of Blood Transfusion
    Chapter 29B Considerations and Potential Pitfalls of Laboratory Tests in the Diagnosis of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
    Chapter 29C Legal and Forensic Aspects of HIV/AIDS Pandemic
    Chapter 29D AIDS--Medical, Legal, and Societal Concerns
    Chapter 29E The Emergency Department Physician Confronts HIV Infection
    Chapter 30 Relationship Analysis
    Chapter 31 Forensic Toxicology
    Chapter 31A Forensic Pharmacology
    Chapter 31B Antemortem and Postmortem Alcohol Determinations
    Chapter 31C Urine Testing for Drugs
    Chapter 31D Death Associated with Anesthesia
    Chapter 31E Tear Gas--Forensic Pathology Aspects
    Chapter 31F Forensic Considerations in Environmental Pathology and Toxicology: Science, Regulation, Litigation, and a Tale of Two Toxins
    Chapter 31G Medicolegal Aspects of Chemical Warfare Agents in Terror Attacks
    Chapter 31H Scene Investigation in Terrorism Cases
    Chapter 31I Disaster Medicine: A New Medical Specialty Comes of Age
    Chapter 32 Forensic Psychiatry
    Chapter 32A Forensic Psychology
    Chapter 32B Forensic Psychology: Selection of Jurors and Other Courtroom Applications
    Chapter 32C Psychological Autopsy: Retrospective Diagnosis of Suicide
    Chapter 32D Forensic Implications of Early Eyewitness Memory
    Chapter 32E Repressed and Recovered Memory
    Chapter 32F Investigation of Suicide--Two Case Histories
    Chapter 32G Police Interactions with Emotionally Disturbed Persons
    Chapter 32H Role of Excited Delirium in Police-Involved Deaths
    Chapter 33 Court Admissible Confessions and the Psychological Stress Evaluator
    Chapter 34 The Polygraph: Basic Information and Admissibility of Evidence
    Chapter 35 Crime Scene Reconstruction
    Chapter 35A Photographic Documentation in Death Investigation: From Death Scene Through Forensic Autopsy Examination ... and Beyond
    Chapter 35B Forensic Meteorology
    Chapter 35C The Crime Scene and Evidence
    Chapter 36 Criminalistics
    Chapter 36A Forensic Textile Fiber Analysis
    Chapter 36B Trace and Transfer Evidence
    Chapter 37 Recognition of Bloodstain Patterns
    Chapter 37A Forensic Hair Examination
    Chapter 37B Asphyxia: Suffocation, Strangulation, and Aspiration
    Chapter 37C DNA Typing-- Criminal and Civil Applications
    Chapter 37D Forensic Applications of Drug Testing of Hair
    Chapter 37E Resuscitation (Patrick-Heimlich Method and Other Techniques): Medicolegal Considerations
    Chapter 37F Use of DNA Evidence in Sex Crimes Cases
    Chapter 37G Hair--An Important Biomonitor for Forensic and Toxicologic Investigation
    Chapter 37H Positional Asphyxiation in Police Restraint Cases
    Chapter 38 Firearm Injuries
    Chapter 38A Investigation of Incendiary Fires
    Chapter 38B Explosions and Terrorist Bombings--Investigative and Medical Aspects
    Chapter 38C Investigation of Fire Cases (Non-Incendiary)
    Chapter 38D Forensic Cremation Analysis: Considerations for Investigation of Intentionally Burned Human Remains
    Chapter 39 Questioned Document Examination
    Chapter 39A Forensic Engineering
    Chapter 39B Working with Forensic Engineering Scientists
    Chapter 39C Forensic Economics: Estimating Economic Loss in Wrongful Death, Permanent Disability, and Discriminatory Discharge Cases
    Chapter 39D Forensic Stylistics
    Chapter 40 Illustrative Testimony
    Chapter 41 Index of Experts

     

    Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D.


    CYRIL H. WECHT, M.D., J.D., general editor and co-author of Forensic Sciences, is a renowned medical-legal consultant, lecturer, author, and editor. Dr. Wecht serves as Coroner of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and is Director of the Laboratory Services Department and Chief Pathologist at St. Francis Central Hospital, Pittsburgh. He is a Clinical Professor of Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, and an Adjunct Professor of Pathology at Duquesne University Schools of Pharmacy, Law, and Graduate School of Health Sciences. Dr. Wecht is also Past President of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American College of Legal Medicine.

     

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