Preceded by Simpson's forensic medicine / Jason Payne-James ... [et al.]. 13th ed. c2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Principles of forensic practice -- The ethics of medical practice -- Medicolegal aspects of death -- Violence in society, medicolegal investigation of death, the autopsy -- The appearance of the body after death -- Death from natural causes -- Deaths and injury in infancy -- Assessment, classification and documentation of injury -- Ballistic injuries -- Regional injuries and patterns of injury -- Pressure to the neck & asphyxial deaths -- Heat, cold & electrical trauma -- Immersion and drowning -- Identification of the living and the dead -- Restraint and control techniques -- Police custodial healthcare -- Sexual assault and genitoanal injury -- Safeguarding and protection of children and vulnerable adults -- Transportation medicine -- Torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment -- Principles of forensic science and crime scene investigation -- Principles of toxicology -- Alcohol (ethanol) -- Licit and illicit drugs -- Medicinal poisons and miscellaneous poisons.