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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"forensic medicine"”.
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Bodies Politic: Civil Law & Forensic Medicine In Colonial Era Bangkok
… and ad hoc. Moreover, I argue that law and medicine were themselves agentive, responding to and altering the sociohistorical conditions of life in fin de siècle Bangkok. To that end, I introduce a host of previously overlooked social actors and forms of agency that helped to transform the …
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Origins And Development Of Forensic Medicine And Forensic Science In England, 1823-1946
This study traces the development of forensic medicine, forensic science and police science from their roots in nineteenth-century England and shows that the main factors which make up the present-day disciplines were in place well before the First World War. The elite practice of forensic medicine …
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Historical Development and Contemporary Dilemmas of a Police Surgeon
… of death investigation the concept of Clinical Forensic Medicine became established. The formation of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine in 2006 with the objectives of promoting the advancement of education and knowledge in forensic and legal medicine and ensuring the highest …
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Naming the dead: the identification of the unknown body in England and Wales 1800-1934
… investigation, the modern bureaucratic state, forensic medicine, the place of the dead, and personal, social and legal identities. It situates and studies identification procedure within the context of the inquest, but argues that this inquiry was entirely independent to that into the cause and …
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Osteometrische Typisierung der Scapula mit Hilfe von EDV-gestützten Verfahren
… derive out of the various possible uses in medicine as well as in the field of forensic medicine also however in anthropology. The aim of this study was to typify the scapulae on the basis of the measured data results and classify the different scapula forms. The newly compiled data of the …
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Fatal penetrating injuries of the chest
… at the Salt River Medicolegal Laboratory by Forensic Pathologists and Registrars of the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology of the University of Cape Town. The Salt River Medicolegal Laboratory serves the greater Cape Town area with a population of approximately 2,5 million, …
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ANALISI STATISTICO-CRIMINOLOGICA DEGLI OMICIDI OCCORSI NEL DISTRETTO GIUDIZIARIO DI MILANO E MONZA NEGLI ANNI 2006-2021
… and Monza and were autopsied at the Institute of Forensic Medicine of Milan between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2021. The data was collected from autopsy reports, interviews with the victims' families, clinical records and local newspapers. In total, of the 11,480 autopsies performed in the …
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Social Disorganization and the Public Level of Crime Control: A Spatial Analysis of Ecological Predictors of Homicide Rates in Bogota, Colombia
… homicide figures from the National Institute of Forensic Medicine, socio-demographic characteristics from the 2005 census, location of police stations from the Metropolitan Police of Bogota, and presence of criminal groups and illegal markets from interviews with police precinct commanders. The …
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Confirmation of cardiomegaly from the cardiothoracic ratio post-mortem Lodox® imaging
In post-mortem forensic radiology the cardiothoracic ratio (CTR) is seen as the most reliable and easiest method for the detection of an enlarged heart, where the maximum transverse diameter of the heart is divided by the maximum transverse diameter of the internal thoracic cage and if the result …
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Skuld och oskuld : barnamord och barnkvävning i rättslig diskurs och praxis omkring 1680–1800
… were professionalized. The science of forensic medicine developed and gained influence in the judicial discourse, primarily in connection with infanticide. Alongside this transformation a masculinisation took place. Science was a male field, and those women who had earlier been …
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Vaistininkų ir pacientų naudojami farmacinės informacijos šaltiniai /
… Garuolienė; Vilnius University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Forensic Medicine and Pharmacology – Vilnius Topic of the master thesis: The Research Pharmaceutical Information Sources used by Pharmacists and Patients. Goal of the work: to research and assess the sources of …
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Retrospective analysis of deaths in the Table Mountain National Park 2000-2011
… the TMNP from 2000-2011. Method: The Salt River Forensic Pathology Laboratory is a state mortuary which serves the Cape Peninsula. Included in its drainage area is the TMNP. Approximately 3000 medico legal investigations are performed per annum, the details of which are stored in databases at the …
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Death by electrocution: a retrospective analysis of three medico-legal mortuaries in the eThekwini district of KwaZulu Natal from 2006 to 2016.
… and histology reports, toxicology reports from Forensic Toxicology unit, contemporaneous notes, postmortem death registers, daily listings of postmortem case allocations and electronic postmortem databases. Data were collated and categorised on an Excel spreadsheet and then analysed on …
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Investigation into DNA recovered from human teeth for forensic applications
… a burden of unidentified deceased individuals in forensic mortuaries. When human remains are severely compromised, hard tissues may provide the only DNA source for identification. The QIAamp® DNA Investigator Kit is used in forensic laboratories worldwide, including in South Africa, to extract DNA …
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Post-mortem toxicological analysis of hair in violent fatalities: an investigation into long-term drug exposure
Violence-related injuries are a major cause of mortality in the Western Cape (South Africa). Previous research has demonstrated an association between violent mortalities and drug use. Furthermore, long-term drug use has been shown to alter behaviour that may lead to violence. Hence, this study …
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Examining external morphological characteristics of Lucilia sericata pupae for age estimation in medico-legal investigations
Insects play an essential role in the resolution of medico-legal investigations. For various insects, like necrophagous flies, it is vital for their survival to find and inhabit a food source such as a decomposing body. This makes it possible to use these insects as evidence in medico-legal …
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An investigation of the association between structural proteins and lipids with scalp hair curvature
… non-invasive analytical sample in diagnostic and forensic medicine. However, variable sensitivities for detection of hair biomarkers were observed, whereby African hair generally incorporated higher drug levels than Asian and Caucasian hair types. It was hypothesized that higher absolute lipid …
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Diagnostic use of hair analysis for the detection of misuse of amfetamines and cannabinoids
The purpose of this study was to develop a single method to analyse drugs in hair and to apply this to case samples received from The Security Forces Hospital, Saudi Arabia. First of all, mass fragments and retention times for amfetamines and cannabinoids were identified by GC-MS using …
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Applications of LC-MS/MS in forensic toxicology for the analysis of drugs and their metabolites
This thesis studied opioids and alcohol in forensic toxicology by LC-MS/MS, which avoids time-consuming procedures involving hydrolysis, extraction and derivatisation. Initially, a method was validated for quantification of opioids and unhydrolysed polar metabolites in autopsy specimens and was …
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