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TABLE OF CONTENTS Unit I: General Aspects of Death Investigation 1. Why know about death investigations? 2. What is a death investigation? 3. Basic types of death investigations 4. Public health death investigations 5. Who actually performs death investigations? 6. The state and local nature of death investigation 7. Where are death investigations conducted? 8. How is death investigation funded? UNIT II: The People of Death Investigation 9. More about forensic pathologists 10. More about coroners 11. More about medical examiners 12. Death investigators 13. Who controls the scene of death? 14. The forensic scientists UNIT III: Goals of Death Investigation 15. Major goals of medicolegal death investigation 16. Major goals of institutional and private death investigation UNIT IV: Examples of Typical Death Investigations 17. A typical institution-based death investigation 18. A typical private death investigation 19. A typical medicolegal death investigation 20. Death investigation: the rake analogy UNIT V: Aspects of Specific Medicolegal Death Investigation Systems 21. Reportable deaths in general 22. Examples of system types 23. Types of medicolegal system by state UNIT VI: Special Circumstances 24. Mass disasters 25. Deaths on Indian reservations or Federal property UNIT VII: Other Aspects of Death Investigation 26. Who may give permission for autopsy? 27. Contents of an autopsy report 28. The death certificate 29. Exhumations 30. Funeral considerations 31. Principles of evidence 32. Experts 33. What if you disagree? 34. Death investigation and insurance 35. Classic idiosyncrasies in death investigation 36. Professional Organizations 37. Access to death investigation information 38. Pronouncement of death 39. Deaths in custody and public institutions 40. Criminal and civil law issues 41. Sample Autopsy Report 42. A Day at the Medical Examiner¿s Office
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Forensic pathology.
Death -- Causes -- Classification.
Criminal investigation.
Coroners and Medical Examiners -- organization & administration -- United States.
Documentation -- methods -- United States.
Forensic Medicine -- methods -- United States.
Forensic Medicine -- organization & administration -- United States.