Recovery of Human Skeletal Remains – Various Issues During Medico-Legal Investigation

Medico legal issues.

This chapter gives an educational overview of: * An awareness of the legal issues involved in health informatics * The need for the privacy and security of the patient record * The legal consequences of a breach of the security of the patient record * The concept of privacy law and what precautions ought to be taken to minimize legal liability for a breach of privacy and/or confidentiality.

Bioarchaeology: Scientific Studies of Archaeological Human Skeletal Remains

Bioarchaeology is an interdisciplinary academic specialty, which through the scientific analysis and interpretation of archaeological human skeletal remains, bridges the link between the biological sciences, medicine, anthropology and social sciences. The cornerstone of bioarchaeology is the interaction between culture and human biology. Since the study of people and ancient societies is one of...

Medico-legal issues in Victorian medical care.

The medico-legal issues raised by 'conscientious objection' constitute a particularly revealing, though hitherto neglected instance of the emerging relationship between community responsibility and personal health during the late Victorian period. The following paragraphs seek to indicate the relevance of a medico-legal approach to Victorian social history, and to suggest certain areas of resea...

Suicide in depressed patients: medico-legal issues.

Medico-legal issues in occupational lung disease litigation.

D URING Alger Hiss’s second perjury trial, the defense called a psychiatrist, Dr. Carl Binger, to give an expert opinion on the credibility of the prosecution’s chief witness, Wittaker Chambers. After reading Chambers’ extant writings and watching him testify at both trials, Dr. Binger found himself able to testify, within “reasonably certainty,” that Chambers was suffering from a psychopathic ...