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D Govindiah md, dfm, cctm
Professor and Head (Retd) Department of Forensic Medicine Osmania Medical College
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Jitendar P Vij
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Colour Atlas of Forensic Medicine
© 2009, D Govindiah
All rights reserved. No part of this publication should be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means: electronic, mechanical, photOcopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author and the publisher.
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Second Edition: 2009
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4Dedicated to
My father, mother
and
beloved sister Chandrakala
5Contributors
The author is very much thankful to the following esteemed colleagues for their valuable contributions.
- Shashidhar C Mestri md
- Professor
- Department of Forensic Medicine
- BLDEA's Medical College
- Bijapur, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- GS Pawar md
- Professor
- Department of Forensic Medicine
- JJM Medical College
- Davangere, Karnataka, India
- Muni Swamy md
- Professor
- Department of Forensic Medicine
- Osmania Medical College
- Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- M Narayan Reddy md
- Head
- Department of Forensic Medicine
- Osmania Medical College
- Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- J Venkata Ramanaiah md
- Professor
- Kamineni Medical College
- Narketpalli, Nalgonda, Hyderabad
- Andhra Pradesh, India
- B Jagan Mohan md
- A Karthikeyan msc (criminology)
This ‘Colour Atlas of Forensic Medicine’ is aimed at helping medical students, busy doctors, police officers and lawyers.
The medicolegal work is highly skilled work and needs extensive knowledge and ability to recognise and interpret correctly the post-mortem changes, injuries, diseases, etc.
In my medicolegal career spanning 25 years, I had noticed that many blunders of misinterpreting post-mortem changes, etc. are committed by doctors, investigating officers for want of practical experience and guidance.
This prompted me to go for the illustrated colour atlas which gives a rich account of practical aspects of the autopsy work.
D Govindiah
7Acknowledgements
I am deeply indebted to the following esteemed colleagues who have helped me in bringing out the book.
I am very much thankful to Dr SJ Nagalotimath, MD DCP, Principal of BLDEA's Medical College, Bijapur (1999), who took keen interest in my work and encouraged me at all stages to go for Atlas.
My special thanks are due to Dr Shashidhar C Mestri, Dr GS Pawar, Shri A Karthikeyan, Dr Harikrishna, Dr Ravinder Reddy, Dr J Mahender Reddy, Dr Khaja Shaik, Dr R Gandhi, Dr R Ramchander Rao, Dr P Inamdar, Dr C Rammohan and Dr Surender Reddy for their contributions of constructive ideas.
I am much thankful to Dr I Bhooshan Rao, Dr GR Bhaskar and Dr KS Narayan Reddy, Dr Pinnamaneni Koteswar Rao, Dr B Chandra Gowda, Dr Ravichander, Dr Arasu, Dr Ananda and Dr Manjunath for their valuable guidance.
I am also grateful to Andhra Pradesh police and law enforcement agencies for their help.
Last for, my thanks are due to Dr M Shanker, Dr Daniel, Dr B Laxmi Prasanna, Dr Nishat Ahmed Sheik, Shri D Sanjeeva Reddy NMA (Gztd); G Anjaneyulu LD/Steno (OMC), Shri Seetha Ram Naidu (Photographer), Shri Jagadish (Photographer), Shri Muralidhar, Shri GN Birader, K Giridhav, J Ramesh, Ramulu and other staff in Forensic Medicine of Kamineni Institute of Medical Sciences, Narketpelly, Nalgonda District, Andhra Pradesh, India.
The author is grateful to Shri Jitendar P Vij (Chairman and Managing Director) and Mr Tarun Duneja (Director-Publishing) of Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, New Delhi and Mr Suresh, author co-ordinator (Hyderabad Branch) who is very co-operative all the time.