Intended for medical practitioners, medical students, homicide detectives, medicolegal investigators, attorneys, and others interested in forensic pathology, this text explains various causes of death as well as other issues pertinent to death events. The text opens with an overview of medicolegal investigative systems, namely, the coroner system and the medical examiner system. This is followed by a chapter on factors in determining time of death. These include livor mortis, rigor mortis, body temperature, decomposition, chemical changes in body fluids, gastric emptying and digestion, insect…
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