4. FORENSIC MEDICINE
Application of Medical & Paramedical
Scientific knowledge to help the law
(civil and criminal)
Forensic Medicine deals with Medical
Aspects of Law
5. Sudden death
Un-expected death
Autopsy to detect Poisoning/Foul play
6. A person collapse on a busy road due
to heart attack.
Dead body ran over by a car, who
charged with man slaughter (less than
murder)
10. A WOUND
Surgeon:
◦ Clean or infected
◦ How to treat
Forensic Expert:
◦ Kind of weapon used
◦ Simple or Grievous
◦ Time when inflicted
11. FORENSIC PATHOLOGY
Pathology: Study of disease.
Forensic Pathology: A special field of
pathology dealing with Medico-Legal
investigation of death especially:
◦ Sudden Death
◦ Unexplained Death
◦ Suspicious Death
◦ Unnatural Death
◦ Violent Death
15. MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE
Doctor-State Relationship
Doctor does not attend court after
summon
Doctor does not inform police about
homicidal injuries (gun shot
etc)/poisoning etc or public health
hazards
16. INQUEST
Legal inquiry or investigation into the
cause of Death, which apparently not
due to natural cause.
17. Natural Causes of Death:
Coronary Thrombosis
Pneumonia
Cereberal Stroke
18. Unnatural/Suspicious Deaths:
Sudden Death, the cause of which is
unknown
Suicide, Homicide, Infanticide
Deaths from Accident
◦Poisoning
◦Drug Misuse
Deaths from Machinery Accident
Deaths Under suspicious circumstances e.g.
◦Burns
◦Fall from height etc
19. Unnatural/Suspicious Deaths:
Death under anesthesia or during
operation
Death shortly after operation, form
hemorrhage, shock etc
Deaths from alleged medical negligence
Death within 24 hrs of admission into
hospital