00702 - Forensic and Insurance Medicine

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Susi Pelotti
  • Credits: 7
  • SSD: MED/43
  • Language: Italian
  • Moduli: Susi Pelotti (Modulo 1) Giancarlo Salsi (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 0660)

Learning outcomes

Classification and evaluation of the main crimes against the person and ability to understand the causation. Duties of health pratictioners about information and confidentiality. Evaluation of health professional liability. Classification of death, death causation and modalities of death. Evaluation of the worker's rights in social insurance field. Evaluation of evidences in forensic genetics, psycopathology and toxicology for criminal trial.



Course contents

Definition and medico-legal fields. Individual's damage. Causality. Imputability and forensic psycopathology. Crimes against life and against individual safe, sexual crimes. Abortion. Traumatology. Thanatology. Crime scene investigation. Forensic genetics and toxicology. Health reports and certificate. Social insurance. Professional confidentiality. Reports to the Courts. Informed consent. professional liability.

Readings/Bibliography

Cicognani, Fallani, Pelotti: medicina Legale, esculapio editore.

Other upgraded books of Forensic Medicine 

Teaching methods

Lessons, casework analysis

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Teaching tools

Slides, Video, meeting with experts, laboratories access

Office hours

See the website of Susi Pelotti

See the website of Giancarlo Salsi