Current practice in forensic medicine / [edited] by John A.M. Gall, J. Jason Payne-James.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

DNA contamination : a pragmatic clinical view -- The toxicity of the novel psychoactive -- Post-mortem gastric content analysis : role in determining time since death -- Conducted energy devices -- Autoerotic deaths -- Excited delirium syndrome : aetiology, identification and treatment -- Automatism : wading through the quagmire -- Classification of personality disorders, clinical manifestations and treatment -- Driving impairment : the main risk factors -- Risk factors for death or harm to health for detainees in short-term police custody -- The utility of radiological investigation of suspected abusive head trauma in children -- Child maltreatment : detection and diagnosis -- Body recovery in potential crimes against humanity investigations : a forensic anthropological approach -- Field missions.