1. Introduction and Evolution
    2. 1. Introduction
    2. Historical perspective
  2. Medical jurisprudence
    3. 3. Doctor and the Law
    4. Ethics of Medical Practice
    5. Euthanasia (Mercy Killing)
    6. Consumer Protection Act and Medical Profession
    7. Human Organ Transplantation: Legal and Ethical Aspects
    8. Ethical and Legal Aspects of AIDS
    9. Medical Records
    10. Medical and Legal Aspects of Anaesthetic and Operative Deaths
  3. Forensic Pathology
    4. 11. Forensic Identity
    12. Forensic DNA Profiling
    13. Thanatology
    14. Postmorteum Examination
    15. Violent Asphyxial Death
  4. Clinical Forensic Medicine
    5. 16. Trauma, Injury and Wound
    17. Regional Injuries
    18. Transportation Injuries
    19. Effects of Injury
    20. Firearms and Explosive Injuries
    21. Effects of Cold and Heat
    22. Electrocution, Lightning and Radiation
    23. Trauma in its Medicolegal View Points
    24. Domestic Violence - Medical and Legal Aspects
    25. Torture and Medical Profession
    26. Sexual Jurisprudence
    27. Infanticide, Foeticides and Child Abuse
    28. Forensic Psychiatry
    29. Forensic Radiology
    30. Forensic Engineering
  5. Forensic Toxicology
    6. 31. General Principles
    32. Corrosive Poisons
    33. Irritant Poisons
    34. Neurotoxics
    35. Cardiac poisons
    36. Asphyxiants
    37. Domestic Poisons
    38. Poisoning by Therapeutic Substances
    39. Food Poisoning and Poisonous Foods
    40. Drug Dependence and Drug Abuse
Forensic Pathology
13. Thanatology
THANATOLOGY
Definition
Thanatology is the scientific study of death, types of death, the various events, or changes that occur in the cadaver after death and their medicolegal significance.
DEATH
Definition
Death is the permanent and irreversible cessation of functions of the three interlinked vital systems of the body namely, the nervous, circulatory and respiratory system.
Types
Somatic death
▢ Definition: Somatic death is the permanent and irreversible cessation of functions of the three interlinked vital systems of the body namely, the nervous, circulatory and respiratory system.
Molecular death
▢ Definition: Molecular death is defined as ultimate death of all cellular elements.
Brain death
Cerebral/ Cortical death
Brainstem death
Whole brain death
The Mode, Manner, Mechanism and Cause of Death
Mode of Death
Syncope (Fainting)
Asphyxia
Coma
Manner of Death
  1. Natural
  2. Homicide
  3. Suicide
  4. Accident
  5. Undetermined/ Unclassified
Mechanism of Death
  1. Haemorrhage
  2. Septicemia
  3. Cardiac arrhythmia
Cause of Death
Immediate cause
▢ Examples:
  1. Bronchopneumonia
  2. Peritonitis
  3. Trauma
Antecedent cause
▢ Examples:
  1. Gunshot wound of abdomen complicated by generalized peritonitis
Contributory cause
▢ Examples:
  1. Carcinoma of stomach