00701 - Forensic Medicine

Academic Year 2013/2014

  • Docente: Susi Pelotti
  • Credits: 7
  • SSD: MED/43
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: 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. Evaluataion 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 fornsic 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

Fallani. Medicina Legale (upgraded). Esculapio

Teaching methods

Lessons

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Teaching tools

Casework evaluation

Laboratories access.

Meeting with experts

Office hours

See the website of Susi Pelotti