Forensic and Legal Medicine in the Third Millennium
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Forensic Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 5313
Special Issue Editors
Interests: medical responsibility; medical ethics; personal damage; social medicine; forensic odontology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The recent technological advances in medicine and engineering have facilitated the acquisition of new knowledge and created new opportunities in different research fields of forensic sciences.
Such technological progress allows some strongly debated issues (such as a more precise identification of the time of death or precise personal identification using algorithms) to be confronted and solved, while also posing new medico-legal, ethical, and deontological issues that healthcare professionals will inevitably face (such as in the case of the use of telemedicine and artificial intelligence or the themes of the end or beginning of life).
This Special Issue seeks to invite the scientific community to publish contributions, in which the ethical and medical legal issues of new technical-scientific advances of the various fields of forensic sciences are discussed.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- forensic toxicology;
- forensic genetics;
- forensic pathology;
- forensic anthropology;
- forensic psychopathology;
- criminalistics;
- social medicine;
- personal damage;
- medical responsibility;
- clinical ethics.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Pierpaolo Di Lorenzo
Prof. Dr. Massimo Niola
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- legal medicine
- forensics sciences
- autopsy
- forensic genetics and genomics
- technology and forensics
- telemedicine
- artificial intelligence
- malpractice
- personal damage
- bioethics
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