00701 - Legal Medicine

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Docente: Susi Pelotti
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: MED/43
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Cesena
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Applied cognitive psychology (cod. 0991)

    Also valid for Campus of Bologna
    Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 0659)

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. Evaluaition 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

Upgraded books of forensic medicine.

Principal laws of medico legal interest

 

 

Teaching methods

Lessons and lab access

Assessment methods

Oral examination.

For erasmus students a short dissertation 

Teaching tools

Slides, video, meetings with experts, access to scientific police lab

Office hours

See the website of Susi Pelotti

SDGs

Peace, justice and strong institutions

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.