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Forensic Medicine

Zhengzhou University via XuetangX

Overview

Forensic Medicine is a branch of medicine that applies the theories and techniques of medicine, biology and other natural science to study and solve medical problems related to judicial practice.

 

Its research objects include living persons, dead bodies and human biological materials, which are related to non-natural death, injury and personal identification.

This course is introduced by the way of combining its theory and practice, and especially some contents in units shared are from the front-line medicine experts of the public security system in Henan Province. Its purposes are as follows:

1. To guide the medical students who will become clinical workers to deal with medical problem related to law from the perspective of Forensic Medicine.

2. To prevent or avoid personal injury and death, and medical disputes and malpractice.

3. To propagate and strengthen the awareness of compliance with law, protection crime scene, preserving evidence and collection relevant evidence, etc.


Syllabus

  • Unit 1 Introduction
    • 1.1 Overview of Forensic Medicine
    • 1.2 The significance of medical students studying Forensic Medicine
  • Unit 2 Death and postmortem change
    • 2.1 Livor Mortis
    • 2.2 Rigor Mortis
    • 2.3 Decomposition
  • Unit 3 Mechanical injuries
    • 3.1 Overview of mechanical injuries
    • 3.2 The most overlooked evidence on the body
    • 3.3 Contusion
    • 3.4 Wound
    • 3.5 Stab wound
    • 3.6 Injuries due to fall from height
    • 3.7 Bullet wounds
    • 3.8 Determination of the cause of death
    • 3.9 Inference and identification process of causative weapon
    • 3.10 Injury analysis
    • 3.11 Forensic homicide scene analysis
  • Unit 4 Mechanical asphyxia
    • 4.1 The classification of mechanical asphyxia
    • 4.2 The common change of mechanical asphyxial death
    • 4.3 Can prone position hanging cause one’s death
    • 4.4 The signs of the hanging corpse
    • 4.5 The morphological changes of drowning
  • Unit 5 High and low temperature and current damage
    • 5.1 Burning and freezing to death
    • 5.2 Electrocution
  • Unit 6 Sudden death
    • 6.1 Introduction and cases of sudden death
  • Unit 7 Poisoning
    • 7.1 The overview of poisoning and forensic identification
    • 7.2 Poisoning of part poisons commonly used
  • Unit 8 Forensic Clinical Science
    • 8.1 Overview of forensic clinical science
    • 8.2 Overview of forensic examination and assessment of living individual
    • 8.3 Attention involving in the forensic medical examination and identification in clinical work
    • 8.4 Introduction to forensic imaging diagnosis (â… )
    • 8.5 Introduction to forensic imaging diagnosis (â…¡)
    • 8.6 Choice of forensic imaging examination methods(Ⅰ)
    • 8.7 Choice of forensic imaging examination methods(Ⅱ)
  • Unit 9 Forensic Psychiatry
    • 9.1 Overview of forensic psychiatry
    • 9.2 Criminal responsibility
    • 9.3 Mental injury and mental disability
  • Unit 10 Forensic biology
    • 10.1 Overview of forensic biology
    • 10.2 Overview of DNA genetic markers
    • 10.3 Short tandem repeat
    • 10.4 The bloodstain test
    • 10.5 Examination of semen spot and other forensic biological evidence
    • 10.6 Paternity identification
  • Unit 11 Medical disputes
    • 11.1 Concept, constituent elements and common situation of medical malpractice
  • Examination

    Taught by

    Wei-hong Yang, Hong-tao Yan, Yun-liang Zhu, Zhao-shu Zeng, Guang-zheng Zhang, and Xu-dong Zheng

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