Define forensic medicine and explain its scope and branches.

Forensic medicine — the medicine's application to the law's questions: the death's-and-injury's medical analysis for the courts (the "medical jurisprudence" of the older books). The scope (thelaw's interface): the death investigation (the autopsy's cause-and-manner); the injury analysis (the wounds' mechanics-and-age); the clinical examination (the assault-and-sexual-offence victims); the toxicology (the poisons-and-intoxication); the identity (the age, the sex, the person); the human-rights faces (the torture-and-custodial examinations). The branches: forensic pathology (the death); clinical forensic medicine (the living); forensic toxicology (the poisons); forensic psychiatry (the mind); forensic odontology (the teeth); the forensic radiology-and-DNA companions (the Forensic Science course's siblings, LAW5510).