Chapter 1: Introduction to Forensic Medicine

Medical Jurisprudence

Forensic medicine was earlier known as ________.

Forensic medicine

that branch of medicine, which deals with the application of medical and paramedical scientific knowledge to the knowledge of both civil and criminal law in order to aid the administration of justice

Forensic

derived from the Latin word forensis, which implies something pertaining to the forum, the communal meeting or marketplace where those with public responsibility discussed civic and legal matters, and where justice was dispensed and indeed seen by the public to be dispensed

Medical Police

specialist in this discipline was supposed to be knowledgeable in matters of public health and hygiene, industrial health, epidemics of disease and other matters, which nowadays pertains together to the specialty of Public Health Medicine

State Medicine

the code of medical ethics and practice developed to regulate the code of conduct for registered medical practitioners, to guide and regulate the professional activities of the doctors and to standardize and supervise the medical profession

Legal Medicine

preferred and accepted to explain the interaction of professions of medicine and law

Forensic Pathology

practiced by those who are able to carry out autopsies and who have the appropriate level of knowledge and expertise to distinguish the various pathological processes which may occur in the human body as a consequence of aging, natural processes, disease and injuries of various types

Clinical Forensic Medicine

deals with those who are still alive and on whom a medicolegal opinion is required

Forensic medicine

that branch of medicine deals with applying medical and paramedical scientific knowledge to the knowledge of both civil and criminal law to aid the administration of justice.

forensis

Forensic derived from the Latin word *____*, which implies something pertaining to the *forum*.

Forum

The communal meeting or marketplace where those with public responsibility discussed civic and legal matters, and where justice was dispensed and indeed seen by the public to be dispensed.

Medical Police

a specialist in this discipline was supposed to be knowledgeable in matters of public health and hygiene, industrial health, epidemics of disease, and other matters, which nowadays pertains together to the specialty of Public Health Medicine.

Social Medicine

medical matters related to employment and includes such other, matters as disease and injuries acquired at work, compensation for such, through insurance companies, and so on.

State Medicine

the code of medical ethics and practice developed to regulate the code of conduct for registered medical practitioners, to guide and regulate the professional activities of the doctors and to standardize and supervise the medical profession.

Legal Medicine

preferred and accepted to explain the interaction of professions of medicine and law.

Forensic Pathology

It is practiced by those who are able to carry out autopsies and who have the appropriate level of knowledge and expertise to distinguish the various pathological processes which may occur in the human body as a consequence of aging, natural processes, disease, and injuries of various types.

Clinical Forensic Medicine

Deals with those who are still alive and on whom a medicolegal opinion is required.