Abstract
Publications Forensic Medicine II is a continuation of previously edited Part I, and they together represent a complete textbook of forensic medicine. The book was written by specialists in forensic medicine from almost whole Czech Republic and Slovakia.
The second part contains eight chapters. The first and largest chapter is given to Forensic toxicology which is the rapidly evolving discipline.
The second chapter, equally comprehensive, describes injuries caused by blunt objects in terms of both general aspects and specifically focused on individual body parts, including the particular problematics of trauma in childhood. Next extensive chapter deals with traffic accidents.
The text contains a number of drawings and diagrams to simplify the understanding of the often complex accident events. For the first time, it contains also an analysis of accident and forensic issues associated with riding on animals.
Following chapter deals with domestic violence, sexually motivated crimes and the syndrome of abused and neglected child. Next chapter discusses the death associated with pregnancy, childbirth and abortion.
Chapter 6 describes the possibility of using laboratory and imaging methods in forensic medicine. Due to the need for training of expert witnesses, basics of connoisseurship, not only for forensic doctors, but for connoisseurs of the healthcare sector in general, including compensation for injuries were included.
For the first time, the textbook of forensic medicine includes a chapter dealing with often difficult and complicated problems of communication with the bereaved persons. The second volume of the textbook contains a dictionary of less known and unusual expressions, index and a small photographic atlas.
Individual chapters were reviewed by the best experts from the Czech Republic and the main, overarching reviewer was professor O. Frye from Geneva.