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John Gall is a forensic physician in private practice, Director of Southern Medical Services, Principal of Era Health and is a staff specialist Forensic Physician in the Victorian Paediatric Forensic Medical Service, located at the Royal Children's Hospital and Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne. He is a member of the International Editorial Board of the Journal of Legal and Forensic Medicine and Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology. He has published widely in the field of clinical forensic medicine and has spent many years teaching forensic medicine to undergraduates and graduates.
JASON PAYNE-JAMES is a forensic physician. He is Honorary Senior Lecturer, Cameron Forensic Medical Sciences, Barts & the London School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of London, UK. He is Director of Forensic Healthcare Services Ltd. He is external Consultant to the National Policing Improvement Agency and to the National Injuries Database in the UK. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Forensic & Legal Medicine. He has published widely in the field of clinical forensic medicine. He has also co-edited, co-authored and contributed to numerous books in the field including Black, Aggrawal and Payne-James: 'Age Estimation in the Living' 2010 (Wiley Blackwell).
Description: This book covers a multitude of topics within the purview of forensic medicine.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide an academic update of current topics in forensics. The preface indicates that this will "act as a forerunner to a regular, multivolume text" that will cover additional topics. The topics are covered well.
Audience: Although written primarily for forensic pathologists, the book provides great deal of useful information to other specialists who deal with the forensic sciences (i.e., attorneys and death investigators). The authors are predominantly British or Australian and the legal chapters are most pertinent to the judicial systems in those countries.
Features: The book covers some controversial topics in forensic medicine, which are exactly the ones that should be discussed, bringing readers up to date on current thinking and providing current references. However, some of the chapters might be better covered elsewhere. Specifically, the chapters on photography and DNA analysis are more completely covered in other books and are not particularly relevant in a book on current and controversial topics in forensic medicine.
Assessment: Most of the topics are extremely useful for newly trained and in-training forensic pathologists. The book provides a concise summary of controversial topics with good references, although some chapters are less pertinent.