- Docente: Jennifer Paola Pascali
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MEDS-25/A
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Medical Biotechnology (cod. 6821)
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from Jan 12, 2027 to Jan 20, 2027
Learning outcomes
The course aims to provide students with foundational knowledge of forensic pathology. Students will learn to recognize post-mortem changes and traumatology, as well as to learn about techniques for crime scene investigation and post-mortem examinations. The course will develop the ability to integrate pathological findings with circumstantial, laboratory and additional data to assess cause, manner and time of death.
Course contents
- Forensic pathology and its fields. Cause, manner and time of death. Crime scene investigation and post-mortem examination: how to do it and what to understand from it?
- Postmortem changes and thanatology
- Traumatology and asphyxiology
- Postmortem investigation of acute intoxications, with particular reference to new psychoactive substances
- Possible research lines for experimental thesis
Readings/Bibliography
Any book of legal medicine is fine, e.g. Saukko P. Knight's Forensic pathology, as long as it is updated.
Power point presentations will be provided as a material to study.
The bibliography of the course also involves scientific publications and additional material that can be requested.
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons with power point.
Assessment methods
Written examination
Teaching tools
Power point presentations available on virtuale
Office hours
See the website of Jennifer Paola Pascali