Topic A - Forensic Medicine > Section A.8.0. Forensic Future > Unit.A.8.2. Forensic Medical/Clinical Research
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The required readings for this unit are:

Unit.A.8.2. Forensic Medical/ Clinical Research

Australia
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Canada
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Taborda, J. G. V., & Arboleda-Florez, J. (1999).

Forensic medicine in the next century: Some ethical challenges. International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology, 43(2), 188-201. Retrieved December 27, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database.
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=2169894&db=aph

  • Discusses the ethical problems that will be faced by forensic medicine in the 21st century. Definition of ethics, morality and law; Medical research with prisoners; Torture; DNA evidence; Data linkage; Telemedicine and telelaw.

 

International
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United Kingdom
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Brown, K. A. (2001). The future is bright - Directions for

future research with ancient DNA in forensic archaeology. Ancient Biomolecules, 3(3), 159-166. Retrieved December 27, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database.
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=5681297&db=aph

  • Offers some personal views regarding the future directions for research with ancient DNA in forensic archaeology. Improvements in extraction methods; Repair of ancient DNA; Use of rapid through-put ancient DNA analysis.

 

United States
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Service, R. F. (2000). Where dead men really do tell

tales. Science, 289(5481), 855-856.
Retrieved December 27, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database.
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=3514434&db=aph

  • Provides information on the Anthropological Research Facility of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, founded by forensic scientist William Bass. Description of the facility; Ongoing projects of the facility; Methods of dating remains; Comments from Arpad Vass, a chemist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

 

Databases
For the full text article online, sleuth the 'University of Calgary/ Library/ Article Indexes':

Directions:

  • Select - Indexes and abstracts with links to full text articles
  • Select - Academic Search Premier or Expanded Academic ASAP
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    • forensic and medicine and research
    • forensic* and living and research
    • forensic* and clinical and research

 

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The 'recommended only' readings for this unit are the following:

Unit.A.8.2. Forensic Medical/ Clinical Research

Australia
Recommended Reading(s)

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Canada
Recommended Reading(s)
Wood, M. J. & Guha, A. K. (2001). Declining clinical

autopsy rates versus increasing medicolegal autopsy rates in Halifax, Nova Scotia: Why the difference? A historical perspective. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 125 (7), 924-930. Retrieved July 2, 2002, from ProQuest database.

  • A retrospective review of autopsy data over a 13-year period from the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Nova Scotia was conducted. This review showed a difference between the rates of clinical and medicolegal autopsies for the metro Halifax area. The clinical autopsy rate was consistently less than 30% and declined to 15% in 1999, while the medico-legal autopsy rate was consistently greater than 40% and rose to 62% in 1999. The literature proposes many reasons for the decline in the clinical autopsy rate, but none for this difference between rates. The explanation proposed here is the changing and currently uncertain purpose of the clinical autopsy versus the clear, and consistent over time, purpose of the medicolegal autopsy.
    (Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2001;125:924-930)

 

Denmark
Recommended Reading(s)

Segest, E. (1987). (Nov) Police custody: Deaths and medical attention. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 32 (6), 1694-1703.

  • Note this study of all deaths while in police custody for a period of time in Denmark.
International
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United Kingdom
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Salib, E. (1998). Death certification in a psychiatric hospital. Psychiatric Bulletin 22, 624-629.

  • Note this retrospective review of death certificates issued at a large psychiatric hospital in North Cheshire during the 1980 and 1990's.
United States
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Additional references for this unit can be found in 'forensic references' of the forensic sourcebooks.

  • Sleuth 'forensic reference' database for:
    • forensic - medicine - research
    • forensic - clinical - research
Kent-Wilkinson, A. (2002). Forensic Sourcebooks: Forensic References.

Retrieved May 28, 2002, from the Forensic Education Website: http://www.forensiceducation.com/sourcebooks/experts/Experts_database.html/refs

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Video's recommended for this unit are:

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The required websites to sleuth for this unit are the following:

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Canada
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International
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United Kingdom
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United States
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For additional websites on this unit, sleuth 'forensic websites' in the forensic sourcebooks.

  • forensic - medicine - research
  • forensic - clinical - research
Kent-Wilkinson, A. (2002). Forensic Sourcebooks: Forensic Websites.

Retrieved May 28, 2002, from the Forensic Education Website: http://www.forensiceducation.com/sourcebooks/experts/Experts_database.html/websites

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