Back to the Future - Part 2. Post-mortem assessment and evolutionary role of the bio-medicolegal sciences.

Ferrara SD; Cecchetto G; Cecchi R; Favretto D; Grabherr S; Ishikawa T; Kondo T; Montisci M; Pfeiffer H; Bonati MR; Shokry D; Vennemann M; Bajanowski T

doi:10.1007/s00414-017-1585-7

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Back to the Future - Part 2. Post-mortem assessment and evolutionary role of the bio-medicolegal sciences.

Ferrara SD Department of Legal and Occupational Medicine, Toxicology and Public Health, University-Hospital of Padova, Padua, Italy. santodavide.ferrara@unipd.it.
Cecchetto G Department of Legal and Occupational Medicine, Toxicology and Public Health, University-Hospital of Padova, Padua, Italy.
Cecchi R Department of Biomedical, Biotechnological and Translational Medicine, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
Favretto D Department of Legal and Occupational Medicine, Toxicology and Public Health, University-Hospital of Padova, Padua, Italy.
Grabherr S University Center of Legal Medicine Lausanne-Geneva, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Ishikawa T Department of Legal Medicine, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, Japan.
Kondo T Department of Forensic Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Montisci M Department of Legal and Occupational Medicine, Toxicology and Public Health, University-Hospital of Padova, Padua, Italy.
Pfeiffer H Institute of Legal Medicine, University-Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany.
Bonati MR Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, Section of Medical Humanities, University of Padova, Padua, Italy.
Shokry D Department of Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, University of Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
Vennemann M Institute of Legal Medicine, University-Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany.
Bajanowski T Institute of Legal Medicine, University-Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.

2017-04-27

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International journal of legal medicine. - 2017

Bio-Medicolegal sciences - Forensic Pathology

Chemistry Techniques, Analytical

English Part 2 of the review "Back to the Future" is dedicated to the evolutionary role of the bio-medicolegal sciences, reporting the historical profiles, the state of the art, and prospects for future development of the main related techniques and methods of the ancillary disciplines that have risen to the role of "autonomous" sciences, namely, Genetics and Genomics, Toxicology, Radiology, and Imaging, involved in historic synergy in the "post-mortem assessment," together with the mother discipline Legal Medicine, by way of its primary fundament, universally denominated as Forensic Pathology. The evolution of the scientific research and the increased accuracy of the various disciplines will be oriented towards the elaboration of an "algorithm," able to weigh the value of "evidence" placed at the disposal of the "justice system" as real truth and proof.

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