This manual Operational Guidelines for Postmortem Examinations and Auditing has been widely appreciated by all levels of forensic practitioners, which necessitated bringing out the second edition in a short span of time. The ready-reckoner aims to encourage and stimulate quality practice, service and teaching in the field of forensic medicine and allied sciences.
The text has been thoroughly revised, updated, reinforced and enlarged to include many more contemporary topics to keep the readers abreast of the progress of scientific upgradation and crime pattern. A few new topics like sex-drugs related deaths, rave parties, alcohol-related deaths, human sacrifice deaths, entomology in forensics, herbal products, sterilization deaths, skeleton examination, adulterous relations, crime against women, sampling for DNA profiling, media communication, etc. have been added. The language and presentation have been kept very simple so that the facts can be easily grasped.
This edition covers 116 chapters and this volume now carries more than 530 pages. Annexure includes a large number of important and functional diagrams and line sketches, of particular interest to practitioners of forensic medicine, for their day-to-day use in maintaining scientific record and certification.
All postgraduate students of forensic medicine and toxicology, practitioners, teachers, lawyers, judicial officers, police officers, and officers of special law-enforcing agencies, will be greatly benefited by this authoritative manual on the subject.