Mollison's Forensic Medicine Lectures
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 5th ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: pages can have minimal notes and/or underlining; ** some content, including post-mortem and injury photographs and descriptions, may be confronting to some readers.**
At the crossroads of law and medicine stands one of Australia's most authoritative forensic texts — Mollison's Forensic Medicine Lectures presents a comprehensive and rigorously revised curriculum originally developed for medical and legal professionals navigating the demanding intersection of pathology and jurisprudence. This fifth edition, revised, enlarged, and illustrated by Keith Macrae Bowden — Lecturer in Forensic Medicine and Stewart Lecturer in Pathology at the University of Melbourne — chronicles the foundational principles of forensic medicine as taught in one of the Southern Hemisphere's most prestigious academic institutions, covering topics from cause of death and post-mortem examination to wound analysis and toxicology. Bowden's scholarly authority is evident throughout, as he instructs with clarity and precision, translating complex medico-legal concepts into an accessible yet academically rigorous framework rooted in mid-20th-century Australian medical practice. The text stands as a significant artifact of forensic medicine's evolution as a formal discipline, reflecting an era when the science of death investigation was being codified and standardized within university curricula. For students of forensic history, medical education, or the history of Australian science, this rare volume raises a compelling question: how much of what we consider modern forensic science was quietly shaped in lecture halls like these?
Author: Keith Macrae Bowden
Format: Hardback
Published: 1949, W. Ramsay (Surgical) Pty. Ltd.
Genre: Medicine
Edition: 5th ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: pages can have minimal notes and/or underlining; ** some content, including post-mortem and injury photographs and descriptions, may be confronting to some readers.**
At the crossroads of law and medicine stands one of Australia's most authoritative forensic texts — Mollison's Forensic Medicine Lectures presents a comprehensive and rigorously revised curriculum originally developed for medical and legal professionals navigating the demanding intersection of pathology and jurisprudence. This fifth edition, revised, enlarged, and illustrated by Keith Macrae Bowden — Lecturer in Forensic Medicine and Stewart Lecturer in Pathology at the University of Melbourne — chronicles the foundational principles of forensic medicine as taught in one of the Southern Hemisphere's most prestigious academic institutions, covering topics from cause of death and post-mortem examination to wound analysis and toxicology. Bowden's scholarly authority is evident throughout, as he instructs with clarity and precision, translating complex medico-legal concepts into an accessible yet academically rigorous framework rooted in mid-20th-century Australian medical practice. The text stands as a significant artifact of forensic medicine's evolution as a formal discipline, reflecting an era when the science of death investigation was being codified and standardized within university curricula. For students of forensic history, medical education, or the history of Australian science, this rare volume raises a compelling question: how much of what we consider modern forensic science was quietly shaped in lecture halls like these?