Forensic Sciences

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