Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorBeran, Roy G
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T14:19:14Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T14:19:14Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.modified2011-01-27T06:45:50Z
dc.identifier.issn1752-928X
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jflm.2009.09.011
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/35824
dc.description.abstractSome consider the terms "forensic" and "legal" medicine to be synonymous but this is counter to the title of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine or the dual strands for progression to fellowship of the Australian College of Legal Medicine. The paper examines a very brief historical background to legal medicine and develops a definition of the strands thereof, namely legal and forensic medicine. It demonstrates that the two are different components of the application of medical knowledge upon the legal system. Legal medicine has greater relevance to civil and tort law, impacting upon patient care, whereas forensic medicine relates to criminal law and damage to, or by, patients.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom137
dc.relation.ispartofpageto139
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Forensic and Legal Medicine
dc.relation.ispartofvolume17
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchClinical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3202
dc.titleWhat is legal medicine – Are legal and forensic medicine the same?
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Health, School of Medicine
gro.date.issued2010
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorBeran, Roy G.


Files in this item

FilesSizeFormatView

There are no files associated with this item.

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

  • Journal articles
    Contains articles published by Griffith authors in scholarly journals.

Show simple item record