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Forensic Pharmacology: Medicines, Mayhem, and Malpractice

Forensic Pharmacology: Medicines, Mayhem, and Malpractice


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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.

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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`constitutes an original but useful contribution in the vast domain of the legal medicine ... Doctor Ferner's book is an essential guide ... Due to the importance of the subjects, the clarity of the text illustrated by numerous examples from the literature and the author's experience, the book will without doubt meet the expectations of a wide range of readers ... An extensive bibliography and an index are included, which make this book a very helpful guide in the field of pharmacology applied to forensic medicine.' Professor P. Mangin, International Journal of International Medicine `an original but useful contribution in the vast domain of the legal medicine ... Doctor Ferner's book is an essential guide through the data of this new common branch of law and pharmacology ... the book will without doubt meet the expectations of a wide range of readers more or less involved in this complex matter ... An extensive bibliography and an index are included, which make this book a very helpful guide in the field of pharmacology applied to forensic medicine.' P. Mangin, International Journal of Legal Medicine, Vol. 108, No. 5/96 `This book will be of great assistance to both legal and medical professionals participating in litigation involving drugs or related substances. This book serves as an engaging primer on a subject that mutually concerns the professions of law and medicine. Throughout the text, discussions are amply illustrated by well over a hundred case reports.' Clinical Toxicology, 35 (2) (1997) `a text, which although dealing with serious matters, is not without humour ... By way of illustration, or seasoning, a large number of case histories have been included, which indeed make fascinating reading. I agree with the author's predictions as to the classes of the professionals that will benefit from buying and studying this book i.e., lawyers, doctors, policeman, etc.' P.F. D'Arcy, Adverse Drug React. Toxicol. Rev. 1997, 16(2)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198548263
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 247 mm
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Sub Title: Medicines, Mayhem, and Malpractice
  • Width: 172 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0198548265
  • Publisher Date: 21 Dec 1995
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 595 gr


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