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Health Occupations > Medicine > Forensic Medicine
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Criminology > Forensic Sciences > Forensic Medicine

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Forensic Medicine  

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  • Medicine, Forensic

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  • for crime or identification: differentiate from JURISPRUDENCE, usually civil suits; for human identification of skeletal remains HUMAN IDENTIFICATION see FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY is available; for human identification by teeth see FORENSIC DENTISTRY; note other specific forensic terms are also available

Scope note

  • The application of medical knowledge to questions of law.

History note

  • 65; CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION was see under FORENSIC DENTISTRY & FORENSIC MEDICINE 1965-74; was heading 1963-64

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