CURRENT PRACTICE IN FORENSIC MEDICINE, VOLUME 2

Chapter One: DNA contamination – a pragmatic clinical view 1
Chapter Two: The toxicity of the novel psychoactive substances 35
Chapter Three: Postmortem gastric content analysis: its role in determining time since death 47
Chapter Four: Conducted energy devices 67
Chapter Five: Autoerotic deaths 81
Chapter Six: Excited Delirium Syndrome: aetiology, identification and treatment 97
Chapter Seven: Automatism – wading through the quagmire 119
Chapter Eight: Classification of personality disorders, clinical manifestations and treatment 139
Chapter Nine: Driving impairment: the main risk factors 153
Chapter Ten: Risk factors for death or harm to health for detainees in short ]term police custody 179
Chapter Eleven: The utility of radiological investigation of suspected abusive head trauma in children 207
Chapter Twelve: Child maltreatment: detection and diagnosis 243
Chapter Thirteen: Recovery of remains in potential crimes against humanity investigations – a forensic anthropological approach 269
Chapter Fourteen: Field missions 287

Forensic medicine is a broad and evolving field with areas of rapid progress embracing both clinical and pathological aspects of practice, in which there may be considerable overlap. This is the second volume in a series that provides a unique, in-depth and critical update on selected topics of direct relevance to those practising in the field of clinical forensic medicine and related areas including lawyers, police, medical practitioners, forensic scientists, and students. The chapters endeavour to maintain a relevance to an international, multiprofessional audience and include chapters on DNA decontamination, the toxicity of novel psychoactive substances, the relevance of gastric contents in the timing of death, the effects of controlled energy devices, the main risk factors for driving impairment, the risk factors for harm to health of detainees in short-term custody, autoerotic deaths, child maltreatment and neglect, and the investigation of potential non-accidental head injury in children. Also included are chapters on excited delirium syndrome, automatism and personality disorders. Two topics not generally covered in standard clinical forensic medical textbooks include a forensic anthropological approach to body recovery in potential crimes against humanity and risk management and security issues for the forensic practitioner investigating potential crimes against humanity in a foreign country.