Authors

Ravindra B Deokar, Sachin S Patil

Abstract

Forensic Medicine is a medical speciality deals with application of medical and paramedical knowledge to aid in administration of justice. Sometimes it is called as Legal medicine. It broad term used to describe the group of medical specialists dealing with cases of injury, poisoning, sexual crimes, assaults, murder, suicide, accidents, and other forms of deaths related to sudden or unnatural causes. They provides their important information and expert opinion to legal authorities to solve legal problems and deals with the legal aspects of law.

Forensic Medicine is a multi-disciplinary branch deals with various medicolegal services including ante-mortem and post-mortem services. It includes the practices of forensic pathology, forensic toxicology, clinical toxicology, clinical forensic medicine, forensic psychiatry, forensic radiology, forensic histopathology, forensic entomology, forensic dentistry, etc.

There is a great scope in Forensic Medicine. There is need of progressive and innovative upgradations of all such special sectors or divisions of Forensic Medicine and medicolegal services.

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DOI

 10.59988/jfmsl.vol.32issue2.1