Current Issue May 2012, Vol. 19, No. 4

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Reviews

  • Testamentary capacity: A practical guide to assessment of ability to make a valid will
    May 2012(Vol. 19 | No. 4 | Pages 191-195)

    K.M. Kennedy

Original Communications

  • Abusing female children by circumcision is continued in Egypt
    May 2012(Vol. 19 | No. 4 | Pages 196-200)

    Abeer Ahmed Zayed, Abla Abdelrahman Ali

  • Factors and processes causing accelerated decomposition in human cadavers – An overview
    January 2011 (Vol. 18 | No. 1 | Pages 6-9)

    Chong Zhou, Roger W. Byard

  • Multiple severe stab wounds to chest with cuts to the ribs. Suicide or homicide?
    January 2011 (Vol. 18 | No. 1 | Pages 26-29)

    Michał Kaliszan

  • Cardiac tamponade secondary to fulminant myocarditis - A case of custodial death
    January 2011 (Vol. 18 | No. 1 | Pages 30-33)

    Hareesh S. Gouda, Lavlesh Kumar, P.R. Malur, Sunita Y. Patil

  • Use of HIV PEPSE and Hepatitis B vaccine following the introduction of a SARC
    November 2011 (Vol. 18 | No. 8 | Pages 375-379)

    Judy Bennett, Sandie Johnson

  • Origin and development of forensic medicine in Egypt
    January 2011 (Vol. 18 | No. 1 | Pages 10-13)

    Magdy Abdel Azim Kharoshah, Mamdouh Kamal Zaki, Sherien Salah Galeb, Ashraf Abdel Reheem Moulana, Elsebaay Ahmed Elsebaay

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About Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

The Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine provides a forum for the rapid publication of topical articles on the clinical aspects of forensic medical work. The journal carries definitive reviews of important issues, offering critical analysis and scientific appraisal.

All aspects of the medical principles of care and forensic assessment of individuals in contact with the judicial system are examined and the journal has a broad international perspective.

Topics covered in the journal include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following, particulary within the clinical setting:

  • Forensic medicine training, forensic medicine national systems
  • Occupational health of police, fitness to interview
  • Healthcare in police and prison custody, death in custody
  • Forensic science, psychiatry, toxicology, odontology, anthropology
  • Death investigation and causes of death
  • Human identification
  • Mental health
  • Criminology
  • Child abuse and neglect
  • Interpersonal violence, assault and injury, personal injury, elder abuse, domestic violence
  • Sexual assault
  • Suicide, parasuicide, and deliberate self-harm
  • Restraint injuries
  • Drug and alcohol misuse, drink and drug driving
  • Traffic medicine, transportation medicine, refugee and asylum medicine
  • Medical law and medical negligence
  • Mass disaster
  • Torture
  • Extra-judicial deaths
  • Human rights