When the doctor verifies the death of a person, he must determine the origin and the cause of it, a task that has legal, sanitary, social, economic and ethical repercussions, since he will have to discern between the communication to the person in charge of the civil registry, in the case of natural deaths, or the prosecution of the corpse if the death is violent or suspicious of...
In Legal Medicine, there are frequently cases having an accidental medico-legal etiology in its more varied situations. An accident is any spontaneous traumatic or morbid fact or phenomenon that happens in a healthy individual or in the course of an illness. The wideness of this definition terms obliges us to take into the account that the different kinds of accidents are...
The present study analyzes the symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in women victims of sexual violence based on the age at which the violence took place and the type of violence (punctual or repeated). An observational, retrospective cohort study was carried out with a sample of users of the Association of Women Victims of Sexual Assault (AMUVI) and victims of some type of...
Under the pretext of analysing a practical supposition of possible responsibility for medical malpractice in the practice of odontology, it penetrates into the analysis from the medical-legal perspective of the proper requirements of the duty to register in a medical history all relevant data that concern for the attention of a patient’s health needs. Such a duty of keeping...
The personality is born with the person, it is shaped and assumes a set of flexible traits (lasting or persistent dimension), that characterize an individual, explain their behavior and make it different from others. The personality disorders are stables, permanents and inflexible patterns of not well adapted behaviors to established expectations or patterns. Traits can become...
Previous researches have shown the high consumption of alcohol and other drugs among the incarcerated population, and his association with a higher rate of prison recidivism. However, it is not common to find studies in Spain focused on the female prison population, due to her lower representation. The aim of the current research was to determine the prevalence of alcohol and...
During a presumable normal labor and delivery, while tractioning the fetus as usual, the doctor midwife was suddenly surprised by fetal decapitation and found herself holding the baby’s head in her hands. The coroner, in a very subjective evaluation of the facts, indicted the midwife, accusing her of applying unusual and brutal forces to disengage the fetus to accomplish the...
Violence is one of the leading causes of death in Latin America and the world. The objective of the present study was to analyze some epidemiological factors related to cases received in the field of thanatology at Sucumbíos’s (Ecuador) Investigation Center of Forensic Science, January to December 2016, these mostly represented by violent deaths. The databases contained in the...