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Forensic Medicine Definition

Forensic Medicine is a branch of medicine that solves the matters of medical and biological characters arising during the activities of Judicial investigations and assists the bodies of public health services to improve the quality of their work.

Sections of Forensic Medicine

There are 12 sections

1. Rules & Regulations
2. Medico-legal Deontology
3. Medico-legal Thantology
4. Medico-legal Traumatology
5. Medico-legal Toxicology
6. Medico-legal Sexology
7. Medico-legal Obstetrics
8. Sudden Death
9. Stimulated & Artificial Diseases
10. Medico-legal Identification of person
11. Medico-legal Research of Material Evidence
12. Medico-legal examination of Living Organisms

Medical Ethics

Medical Ethics defines the basic principles in medicine such as determining values, establishing normative and formulating codes.

Basic principles of ethics of every medical professionals are :

1. Autonomy
2. Equality
3. Objectivity
4. Honesty
5. Confidentiality
6. Implementation of duties
7. Control
8. Responsibility
9. Avoiding the conflicts

Branches of Forensic Laboratory

1. Forensic Medical Histological
2. Forensic Medical Cytological
3. Forensic Medical Immunological
4. Forensic Medical Toxicological
5. Medico Criminalistic