Unit 5: Clinical Forensic Medicine
5.1 Sexual Offences and Sexual Perversions
The sexual offences’ medical faces (the rape’s examination’s core): the victim’s examination (the general (the emotional state, the injuries); the genital (the injuries’ presence-absence — the consensual’s non-equal: the no-injury’s meaning debates); the samples (the swabs — the semen-and-saliva; the foreign hairs; the blood)); the timing (the earliest examination — the evidence’s decay); the suspect’s examination (the injuries (the victim’s resistance — the scratch marks); the samples (the penile swab — the earliest hours)); the chain (the samples’ custody — the DNA’s link); the false-accusation’s questions (the examination’s objectivity — the both-sides’ medical duty).
The perversions’ catalogue (the paraphilias’ medico-legal faces): the exhibitionism; the voyeurism; the fetishism; the sadism-masochism; the paedophilia — the offences’ overlap (the Criminal Code’s provisions); the psychiatric’s interface (the sanity-and-treatment questions).
5.2 Abortions
The abortion’s medico-legal world: the legality’s line (the Criminal Code 2074’s framework: the permitted-abortion’s conditions — the pregnancy’s weeks, the woman’s consent, the qualified practitioner; the illegal-abortion’s offences (the provider’s-and-the woman’s faces)); the examination’s questions (the suspected illegal abortion): the pregnancy’s signs (the recent-pregnancy’s evidence); the abortion’s signs (the uterus’s-and-cervix’s examination; the instruments’ marks; the products’ presence); the complications (the sepsis, the perforation, the haemorrhage — the dangerous-abortion’s evidence); the abortifacient’s faces (the drugs’ history — the toxicology’s search); the death’s cases (the illegal-abortion’s mortality — the autopsy’s questions).
5.3 Signs of Delivery
The recent-delivery’s evidence (the motherhood’s disputed questions — the concealment’s cases): the breast’s signs (the colostrum-and-milk); the abdomen’s (the linea nigra, the striae); the genital’s (the uterus’s involution, the cervix’s os — the nulliparous-vs-parous differential); the lochia’s presence; the timing (the delivery’s recency — the days’ signs’ progression); the umbilical cord’s-and-placenta’s examination (the newborn’s connection — the infanticide’s investigation’s link to U2.4).
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