Syllabus
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Course Code: M-FSC 303 Course Name: Forensic Medicine |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Forensic Medicine: Cause of death; Aphyxial death- Introduction, characteristics and types of asphyxia death. Machenical asphysia-Hanging, strangulation, suffocation and drowning -starvation: Charecteristics and legal aspects. |
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| 2 | Thermal Death: Charecteristics, type, rule of nine, antimortem and post-mortem burn, scald and burn and their medico-legal aspects. Lightning – Electrocution. Estimation of time since death: Somatic, cellular and brain-death, Suspended animation. Immediate changes- cooling of body, lividity, rigor mortis, cadaveric spasm, cold stiffening and heat stiffening. Late change-purtifaction, adipocere, decomposition, skeletinization. Post-mortem examination, Exhumation. |
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| 3 | Injuries: Classification, types and characteristics of mechanical injuries, age of injury, antimortem and post mortem injury, artificial injury, grievous injury, suicidal/accidental/homicidal injuries; causes of death by mechanical, law related to injury and their medicolegal aspects. | |
| 4 | Sexual offences: rape Investigation, unnatural sexual offences, its medicolegal importance, section of IPC related to sexual offences, Amendments in law related to sexual offences. criminal abortion and infanticides. Database of Sexual offenders. Identification of living and dead person: Living persons- Identification through race and religen, sex, age, stature, complexion and features. External peculariti- mole, birthmarks, occupation marks, scars, tattoo marks and deformities; handwriting and mannerisms, speach and voice. Genetic traits of Forensic significance: Colour blindness, ear lobe, brachydactyly, polydachtyly, eye colour, hair colour etc. Identification of the recently dead and decomposed bodies. Portrait parley/ Bertillon system, superimposition techniques- photographic and video superimposition. Legal aspects. |
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