What is it?
Forensic medicine is a range of knowledge that conjugates justice and med
icine by the same time. It uses all areas that support the medical knowledge to explain the most mysterious enigmas of crime!
icine by the same time. It uses all areas that support the medical knowledge to explain the most mysterious enigmas of crime! This connection between justice and medicine is essentially based in the studies of the victims, alive or not. Yes! Many people think that forensic medicine is the "medicine of the dead people" but, in fact this idea is a myth. It’s true that it involves an area that deals with phenomenons of death - the tanatology. But there is also a medical-legal clinic that is intended victims alive. In the next posts we are going to deal whit this duality of forensic medicine constantly!
What's its function?
It is important to distinguish a difference between forensic medicine as an experimental science and as a social science!
First, we can say that its main functions are: collect and preserve traces; determinate if the lesions are the result of a crime, an accident or nature; identification of bodies; articulate themselves with professionals in more specific areas to check suspicions…
By the other side, it is also correct to say that it is a weapon against crime because, by contributing to solve crimes it dissipates the enthusiasm for anti-social activities.
Soon we are going to publish details about the techniques used the specialists of the area! Don’t forget: continue following the next posts!
Written by: Vera Gonçalves
Translated by: Vera Gonçalves
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