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 Former title:
Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine
Editor-in-Chief:
J. Jason Payne-James
See editorial board for all editors information
Official journal of The Faculty of Legal and Forensic Medicine, The Australian College of Legal Medicine and the British Association in Forensic Medicine.
Description
The Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine provides a forum for the rapid publication of topical articles on legal medicine and
all clinical aspects of forensic medicine and related specialities. The Journal carries definitive reviews, original communications,
hypotheses, learning points of important issues, offering critical analysis and scientific appraisal. All submissions are peer-reviewed
by at least two independent reviewers, and the Journal is listed in MEDLINE/Index Medicus.
All aspects of legal medicine, the
coronial system and the medical principles of care and forensic assessment of living individuals, whether adult or child, in contact
with the judicial system are examined and the Journal has a broad international perspective.
Topics covered in the journal include,
but are not necessarily limited to, the following, particularly with relevance to the clinical setting:
- forensic medicine
- forensic pathology
- forensic science
- forensic toxicology
- forensic odontology
- forensic anthropology
- forensic psychiatry
- death and care in custody
- training, forensic nursing
- occupational health of police,
fitness to interview
- death investigation and causes of death
- forensic medicine national systems
- human identification
- entomology and palynology
- taphonomy
- mental health
- criminology, profiling
- child abuse and neglect
- interpersonal violence, assault and injury, personal injury, elder abuse, domestic violence
- sexual assault
- suicide,
parasuicide and deliberate self-harm
- restraint injuries
- drug and alcohol misuse
- drink and drug driving
- traffic medicine, transportation medicine, refugee and asylum medicine
- medical law, medical ethics
- euthanasia and
end of life issues
- consent
- confidentiality
- clinical negligence
- professional regulation
- patients'complaints
procedures
- medical disciplinary procedures
- the coronial system
- clinical governance
- clinical risk
management
- clinical performance review procedures
- criminal charges arising from clinical practice such as murder, manslaughter
and indecent assault
- the sick doctor
- the validation, licensing and certification of doctors
- mass disaster,
war graves
- torture
- extra-judicial deaths
- human rights
Bibliographic & ordering information
ISSN: 1752-928X
Imprint: ELSEVIER
Commenced publication 2007
Subscriptions for the year 2008,
Volume 15,
8 issues
Institutional online access: ScienceDirect eSelect
For purchase of online access to this journal on ScienceDirect.
Institutional price: Order form
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JPY 69,000 for Japan
EUR 622 for European countries and Iran
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GBP 188
Resident price: Order form
JPY 14,400 for Japan
EUR 132 for European countries and Iran
USD 120 for all countries except Europe, Japan and Iran
Trainee price UK: Order form
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Personal price: Order form
EUR 270 for European countries and Iran
USD 240 for all countries except Europe, Japan and Iran
JPY 29,300 for Japan
Conditions of sale & ordering procedures, and links to our regional sales offices.
For an overview of recently-dispatched issues, see the Journal issue
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Audience
Police Surgeons, Forensic Clinicians, Scientists, Psychiatrists, Pathologists, Odontologists and Nurses.
Also Coroners, Prison Medical
Officers, Criminologists, Lawyers, Police Officers, ER Staff and Armed Forces Medical Officers.
Members of the AFP, ACLM and BAFM
can access the journal electronically as part of their membership entitlement.
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For further information about this Journal, please use the following e-mail addresses:
Author
queries: authorsupport@elsevier.com
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Editor queries: editorsupport@elsevier.com
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See also the Forensic
Science/Medicine and Legal Medicine Package
NEW! Encyclopedia
of Forensic and Legal Medicine
Please visit the Elsevier
book page for detailed, practical books from experts in the field.
The Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine
supersedes the Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine as of the 1st of January 2007.
Please click here for all information relating
to the Journal of
Clinical Forensic Medicine.
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Last update: 24 Jul 2008
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