Legal Medicine: Introduction and General Principles

Legal Medicine · Clinical Bases

How it begins

Fundamentos conceptuales, históricos, epistemológicos y deontológicos de la Medicina Legal: definición y objeto, ramas y disciplinas afines, el documento médico-legal, la función pericial, la prueba científica en el proceso judicial, el marco jurídico-penal del acto médico, la responsabilidad profesional, el secreto y el consentimiento, y los principios bioéticos que vertebran toda actuación médico-forense.

What it covers

1. Concept, Definition and Object of Forensic Medicine
2. · Material object and formal object
3. · Distinctive epistemological characteristics
4. · The fundamental forensic questions
5. Historical Evolution of the Discipline
6. Branches, Divisions and Related Disciplines
7. · Auxiliary disciplines of criminology
8. Institutional Organization of Forensic Practice
9. · Nuclear functions of a legal medicine institute
10. Expert Method and Epistemological Foundation
11. · The phases of the expert method
12. · Degrees of certainty in the expert conclusion
13. · Causal reasoning: imputation criteria
14. · Cognitive biases in forensic expertise
15. The Medical-Legal Expert: Figure, Function and Duties
16. · Essential duties of the expert
17. · Recusal, abstention and objections
18. · The expert in the oral trial
19. Medico-Legal Documents
20. · Structure of the expert report
21. · The medical death certificate in detail
22. · Quality attributes of the medical-legal document
23. Expert Evidence in the Judicial Process
24. · Admissibility criteria for scientific evidence
25. · Probabilistic inference and likelihood ratio
26. · Frye, Daubert and the evolution of standards
27. Legal Framework of the Medical Act
28. · Nuclear legal concepts
29. · The medical act and its legality requirements
30. · Complementary legal concepts
31. Medical Professional Responsibility
32. · Elements of malpractice (medical negligence)
33. · Gradation of criminal recklessness
34. · The expert assessment of malpractice
35. Professional Medical Secret
36. · Causes of legitimate disclosure
37. · Historical modalities and models of secrecy
38. · Protection of health data
39. Informed Consent and Patient Autonomy
40. · Validity requirements
41. · Exceptions to consent
42. · The mature minor and gradual capacity
43. · Rejection of treatment
44. Bioethical Principles and Medical Deontology
45. · Deontology, codes and committees
46. · Milestones of bioethics and research ethics
47. · Bioethical dilemmas of medical-legal border
48. Civil Capacity and Criminal Imputability
49. · Causes of non-imputability and their assessment
50. The Scene, the Lifting of the Corpse and the Evidence
51. · Locard's principle and the logic of the clue
52. · Functions of the legal practitioner in the survey
53. Fallacias, Errors and Good Expert Practices
54. Glossary of Fundamental Terms
55. Integrative Synthesis