Overview

Forensic Pharmacology offers a unique and comprehensible account of pharmacological methods and knowledge, and how to use them to solve problems in crimes from drunken driving to murder. It also deals with negligence in giving drugs, and adverse reactions to drugs. The text is enlivened by cases from the literature and from the authors' experience. Appendices give detailed examples of pharmacological problems and their solutions; tables and equations for alcohol calculations; and data for medicines encountered in forensic work. Experts do not always understand what lawyers want of them, and lawyers fail to appreciate that experts in medicine and pharmacology may not be experts in the law. The section entitled 'legal considerations' was written by a barrister with wide experience of using expert evidence and explains clearly the legal principles. It also contains some helpful hints on how to deal with court procedure and adversarial lawyers.

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Author:   R.E. Ferner ,  Elizabeth Norman ,  M.D. Rawlins
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.70cm
Weight:   0.595kg
ISBN:  

9780198548263

ISBN 10:   0198548265
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   21 December 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

PART 1: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS; 1. Drugs, their behaviour and their effects on the body; 2. Analyses of drugs and drug concentrations in blood and other body compartments; 3. Legal considerations; PART 2: SPECIFIC PROBLEMS; 4. Effects of drugs on behaviour; 5. Effects of drugs on the victims of crime; 6. Negligence and medicines; PART 3: SPECIFIC DRUGS OF FORENSIC IMPORTANCE; 7. Ethanol; 8. Benzodiazepines; 9. Insulin; 10. Potassium chloride and other potassium salts; 11. The antipsychotic drugs: phenothiazines, butyrophenones, and other agents; 12. Opiates and related drugs; 13. Vaccines; 14. Paracetemol; 15. Anabolic androgens (anabolic steroids); Appendix A Pharmacokinetic calculations; Appendix B Detailed aspects of measurement of ethanol and calculations based on ethanol concentration; Appendix C Brief details of some drugs of forensic importance; References; Index

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Will be of great assistance to both legal and medical professionals participating in litigation involving drugs or related substances...Discussions are illustrated by well over a hundred case reports. Far from being a dry treatise on legal aspects of medicine... --Clinical Toxicology<br>

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