Welcome to Prof. Heeresh Chandra's Cause of Death Indicator/Investigation and work Atlas.

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The Forensic Pathology or more aptly the traumatic forensic medicine is Anatomy and Physiology, which is derailed due to trauma and, from the time trauma is sustained till death or survival thereafter. The study lays the methods adopted to assess the medicolegal aspect.

With my experience as a Professor of Anatomy and subsequently of Forensic Medicine, I discovered that it is the alteration in anatomy which becomes the basis of reconstruction of the event and death. The pathology follows and is deceased anatomy. The readers as such will find each relevant chapter opening with forensic anatomy. It becomes the basis of writing a medicolegal report, the foundation is solid, logical and is based on architectural facts, reconstruction.

The evaluation of these factors form the medicolegal aspect for civil or criminal wrong, two methods, the author has identified e.g. Reconstructive Forensic Medicine and Investigative Forensic Medicine. These are based entirely on the study of whole event and evidence given by living or lifeless material. Figuratively the lifeless material like human body, surroundings and the environment, trace evidences etc are all witnesses. They speak the language that is understood only by an experienced person, with honesty and purpose with no motivation or under influence. Then lifeless material do not tell lies but they won't speak unless they are sure of your integrity. The book will be proof to these metaphoric statements. Thus to enumerate injury and label these without reconstructive and investigative events leading to such sustaining and retrieval is not what is expected of an autopsy surgeon. Any person can give the post mortem diagnosis that death is due to fall, burns, poisoning etc. It is for the medicolegal diagnosis is of cause of injury or death that the living or dead person is brought to the expert of this subject. Relevant anatomy and physiology in the circumstance has been described in this book and illustrated as a foundation of the subject. Many of us have to look up books of other basic subjects, like Anatomy though being an anatomist of a long standing, I had to look up allied facts to reconstruct an injury.

I must warn the medical practitioners in the field that what you see, you must write. The opinion of the courts should not deter them from writing medical facts of observation. If the inference is wrong, someone else will correct it. But if facts of observations are maligned, the foundation will be lost.

The autopsy surgeon must use three things as often as possible and that is a magnifying lens, a torch and a measure tape. As a clinician is identified by stethoscope, the autopsy surgeon with the above.

A exhaustive updated appendix for reference is annexed. The persons in the profession need these figures at a critical time in computing medicolegal reports.

    Also visit site www.reconstructiveandivestigativefm.20m.com for geting into more theorotical details and various outstanding and reported cases handled by me. This site explores the 2/3 December's Bhopal Aerosol Tragedy in detail with speciman photographs few of which are available in this site also.

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Few Photographs On First world Congress available in the site.

Bhopal Aerosol Tragedy

Prof. Heeresh Chandra

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