Forensic Medicine Lecture Notes

Lecture Notes on Forensic Medicine

A 48 page PDF document compiled by Prof Derrick Pounder
Chapter 1: Blunt Force Injuries (page 1)
Chapter 2: Sharp Force Injuries (page 5)
Chapter 3: Gunshot Injuries (page 9)
Chapter 4: Burns and Electrical Injuries (page 13)
Chapter 5: Head Injuries (page 17)
Chapter 6: Death (page 21)
Chapter 7: Changes After Death (page 24)
Chapter 8: Time Since Death (page 27)
Chapter 9: Injury and Death in Water (page 32)
Chapter 10: Injury and Death in Fire (page 35)
Chapter 11: Injury and Death on the Road (page 39)
Chapter 12: Alcohols (page 42)
Chapter 13: Non-Medicinal Poisons (page 46)

Wounds (DWS) (PDF, 214 KB)

Head Injury (PDF, 126 KB) 

Identification (PDF, 114 KB)

Henssge Nomogram up to 23C (PDF, 1.8 MB)  

Henssge Nomogram above 23C (PDF, 2.2 MB)

Alcohol and Alcoholism (PDF, 189 KB)

Brain Stem Death and Organ Transplantation (PDF, 97 KB) 

Procurator Fiscal & Coroner (PDF, 133 KB)

Medico-Legal Autopsy (PDF, 130 KB)

The Role of the Expert (PDF, 90 KB)

Asphyxial Deaths (PDF, 108 KB)

Drug-Related Deaths (PDF, 151 KB)

Wounds (DJP) (PDF, 184 KB)

Time of Death (PDF, 196 KB)

Gunshot Wounds (PDF, 168 KB)

Bodies Recovered from Fires (PDF, 127 KB)

Bodies Recovered from Water (PDF, 137 KB)

Credits: University of Dundee Forensic Medicine