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The Florida Healthcare Professionals Medico-Legal Guide - Volume I & II

Practical Aspects of Interview and Interrogation Second Edition

Description:

What makes a person confess to a crime he did not commit? Was he coerced? Is he trying to protect someone else? Interrogation has come under attack as opponents focus on false confessions. However, most cases are still resolved by confession, not forensic evidence. Among the new topics covered in the Second Edition of this bestselling book, Practical Aspects of Interview and Interrogation focuses on why false confessions exist and how to avoid them.

$79.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

This updateable book is a single-source reference for any healthcare professional in the state of Florida looking to maintain a safe, malpractice-free, compliant practice.

$295.00 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Pain Management: A Practical Guide for Clinicians, Sixth Edition

Law for the Expert Witness, 2nd Ed.

 

Description:

This authoritative reference, the Sixth Edition of an internationally acclaimed bestseller, offers the most up-to-date information available on multidisciplinary pain diagnosis, treatment, and management.

 

$289.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

Written by a trial lawyer turned professor, Law for the Expert Witness, Second Edition is for professionals who participate - voluntarily or involuntarily - in the legal system as expert witnesses.

$79.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Attention Deficit Disorder Misdiagnosis Approaching ADD from Brain-Behavior /Neuropsychological Perspective for Assessment and Treatment

Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice

Description:

Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice, Second Edition presents up-to-date, practical information on consulting in a variety of practice environments and legal areas. Whether you are an in-house LNC or you work independently, this book is your definitive guide to legal nurse consulting.

$99.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

This is an essential text for doctors, parents and any individual working with an ADD child or adult. It will also help professionals in related disciplines approach ADD as a biochemical medical disorder and understand the reasons for its inherent complexity and frequent misdiagnosis.

 

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Ethical Reasoning in the Mental Health Professions

Assessment of Rehabilitative and Quality of Life Issues in Litigation

Description:

Assessment of Rehabilitative and Quality of Life Issues in Litigation focuses on quality of life as a means of conceptualizing and measuring pain and suffering in the controversial enjoyment of life debate.

$99.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

Ethical Reasoning in the Mental Health Profession discusses the ethical codes of both psychology and counseling. This interdisciplinary approach promotes a better understanding of the similarities and differences in the points of emphasis in the two codes, which, in turn, enriches your understanding of the range of ethical considerations relevant to the practice of the mental health professions.

$44.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

The Concise Dictionary of Medical-Legal Terms

MBA Handbook for Healthcare Professionals

Description:

A General Guide to Interpretation and Usage brings together the philosophies, principles, causes and effects, approaches, and other fundamentals that seem to be relatively stable in medical-legal spheres.

$39.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

MBA Handbook for Healthcare Professionals tells you everything you need to know about the effective business management of a modern medical practice.

$59.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Effective Expert Witnessing; Third Edition

The Health Care Provider's Guide to Facing the Malpractice Deposition

Description:

Effective Expert Witnessing, Third Edition incorporates recent court rulings concerned with reliability, relevancy, and admissibility of expert testimony, which have drastically altered the nature of expert witnessing and trial strategy.

$79.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

The Health Care Providers Guide To Facing The Malpractice Deposition can provide anyone in the health care industry with the tools necessary to come out of a malpractice deposition unscathed or with as few bruises as possible.

$44.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

The Risk Management Handbook for Healthcare Professionals

A Dictionary of Medical Derivations: The Real Meaning of Medical Terms

Description:

The Risk Management Handbook for Healthcare Professionals shows you how to avoid litigation, what to do when sued, and what to do in the midst of litigation.

$89.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

This dictionary explains the original meanings and correct use of the 500 Greek and Latin words and word parts that make up 98% of all medical terms used today. It stimulates better, quicker comprehension of medical terminology with less grinding memory work and is the ideal way for students to learn how medical words are formed from Latin and Greek roots and how to construct a medical vocabulary for both old and new medical words.

$54.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       
Practical Homicide Investigation: Tactics, Procedures, and Forensic Techniques - Third Edition Bloodstain Pattern Analysis: Second Edition - With an Introduction to Crime Scene Reconstruction

Description:

Learn the techniques and procedures to catch killers in Practical Homicide Investigation, the trusted "bible" used by thousands of law enforcement professionals across the country and around the world. Now the new Third Edition includes even more information - more photographs, more illustrations, more checklists, more case studies, and more protocols - than ever before.

$84.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

Used properly, bloodstain pattern analysis helps establish events associated with violent crimes. As such, it is a critical bridge between forensics and the ultimate goal of forensics, defining an accurate crime reconstruction. The second edition of this bestselling book is thoroughly updated to employ the latest protocols, including the application of scientific method, the use of flow charts, and the inter-relationship of crime scene analysis to criminal profiling. It provides more illustrations, including color photographs, and explains the use of computer programs to create demonstrative evidence for court. Bloodstain Pattern Analysis aids forensic scientists, investigators, and attorneys in understanding violent crime scenes. It provides quick and accurate information to help the reader understand blood stain pattern information.

$94.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       
Criminal Psychology and Forensic Technology: A Collaborative Approach to Effective Profiling
Forensic Art and Illustration

Description:

Offender profiling has been developing slowly as a possible investigative tool since 1841 and the publication of Edgar Allen Poe's The Murder in the Rue Morgue. In this book, detective C. Auguste Dupin demonstrates the ability to follow the thought patterns of a companion while they stroll through Paris for 15 minutes without speaking a word. Today profiling is an important investigative tool. Nevertheless, it often represents a less than educated attempt to provide law enforcement agencies with detailed information about the behavior of an unknown individual who has committed a crime.

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Description:

Beginning with the first-ever in-depth documentation of the history of forensic art, this book proceeds logically through explanations of facial anatomy, practical methodologies and techniques, case examples, and a glossary of terms. More than 700 illustrations and photographs depict art methods used in identifying and locating crime victims and criminal offenders.

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The Clinical Practice of Complementary, Alternative, and Western Medicine Tunnel Syndromes: Peripheral Nerve Compression Syndromes - Third Edition

Description:

"Western Medicine", "Alternative Medicine", "Complementary Medicine", "Holistic Medicine", and "Natural Medicine." There is really only one "medicine" that heals and puts the whole patient, not the disease, at the center of care: Integrated Medicine. This practice integrates all modalities of healing to produce not merely a medical cure, but a deeper healing of the patient on his or her own terms.

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Description:

The need for a comprehensive resource with easy-to-find information has increased with the addition of nine new syndromes. Tunnel Syndromes: Peripheral Nerve Compression Syndromes provides a quick overview of tunnel syndromes including the definition, anatomy, etiology, clinical signs and symptoms, and treatment. It presents a total of 50 tunnel syndromes. Following the tradition of the first two editions, this resource continues to probe the origins of tunnel syndromes and to propose probable causes that lead to them.

$109.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       
Concussive Brain Trauma: Neurobehavioral Impairment and Maladaptation
Footwear Impression Evidence: Detection, Recovery, and Examination - Second Edition

Description:

The book is unique in its coverage of the personality changes, family dysfunction, and stress that often occur in wake of concussive brain trauma. Case examples illustrate persistent and acute alterations of consciousness, as well as cognitive, mood, personality, and social effects of head injury, in order to guide appropriate treatment. In addition, the book documents unfamiliar signs not included in the usual list of postconcussive symptoms. Concussive Brain Trauma: Neurobehavioral Impairment and Maladaptation stands alone as an in-depth, authoritative guide to the condition also described as closed head injury and "minor" traumatic brain injury.

$149.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

In this new edition, everything, including the original twelve chapters, bibliography, appendix, etc., has been clarified, updated and expanded. This edition includes updated and new information on recovery procedures and materials such as lifting, photography and casting; chemical enhancement; updated information about footwear manufacturing; footwear sizing; and known impression techniques and materials.

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Forensic Pathology A Color Atlas on CD-ROM
Dictionary of Medical Eponyms - Second Edition

Description:

Readily accessible and easily searchable, Forensic Pathology: A Color Atlas on CD-ROM provides much of the basic information that forensic pathologists and other investigators need on a day-to-day basis. Packed with 800 full-color, captioned photographs, this atlas examines everything from time of death and decomposition, to identification, causes of death from blunt trauma, firearm injuries, asphyxia, cutting and stabbing injuries, and more. The atlas shows the various causes of death and injury with case examples -- "visuals" to help investigators understand the work they perform.

$149.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

This is an attractively priced softcover edition of Firkin and Whitworth's internationally popular dictionary of medical eponyms used in internal medicine. Each entry tells the meaning of the eponym and provides bibliographic information about the person. The authors' considerable scholarship and the care they devote to their work is evident in their Introduction to this updated edition of the book.

$39.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       
The Inverted Medical Dictionary
Forensic Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques

Description:

Ever feel embarrassed because you don't know proper medical terms? This handy reference will help you find the words and abbreviations you need. Each meaning in this dictionary is listed alphabetically by layman's terms and followed by the proper medical term, from "abdominal cavity distension" (celiectasia) to "yellow skinned" (xanthochromia, xanthrochroous).

$89.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

Highly respected experts active in each discipline share their expertise, their cases, and up-to-date techniques, while careful editing has made that information accessible to non-scientists. Forensic Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques offers a clear, comprehensive overview that reveals the breadth and richness of the forensic sciences to students entering the field and practitioners who need to collaborate outside their disciplines.

$79.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       
Color Atlas of Forensic Pathology Atlas of Common Subluxations of the Spine and Pelvis

Description:

Originally published on CD-ROM, the Color Atlas of Forensic Pathology addresses much of the basic information which forensic pathologists and other investigators deal with on a day to day basis. Packed with 780 full-color, captioned photographs, this atlas examines everything from time of death and decomposition, to identification, to causes of death from blunt trauma, firearm injuries, asphyxia, cutting and stabbing injuries, and more. The atlas shows the various causes of death and injury with case -- "visuals" to help investigators understand the work they perform.

$219.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

subluxation Loss of joint alignment and integrity. This describes an injury to the joint structures such as the ligaments, discs, joint capsules, supporting tendons, and fascia. Subluxation is the most common etiology of osteoarthritis and is characterized by immobilization, inflammation, pain and muscle spasms.

 

$129.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Investigating Computer-Related Crime

Interpretation of Bloodstain Evidence at Crime Scenes - Second Edition

Description:

Written by an experienced information security specialist, Investigating Computer-Related Crime is tailored to the needs of corporate information professionals and investigators. It gives a step-by-step approach to understanding and investigating security problems, and offers the technical information, legal information, and computer forensic techniques you need to preserve the security of your company's information.

$79.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

Everyone involved in crime scene evaluation and interpretation-law enforcement officers, criminologists, medical examiners, forensic pathologists, medicolegal personnel, and prosecutors and defense attorneys-will benefit from the improved and expanded second edition of this definitive reference.

$94.95 (Click HERE for more info)

 

       

Current Methods in Forensic Gunshot Residue Analysis

Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation - Sixth Edition

Description:

Current Methods in Forensic Gunshot Residue Analysis deals with major areas of gunshot residue analysis such as current and future methods of analysis, collection techniques, interpretation of evidence as well as expert testimony and report writing.

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Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation, Sixth Edition examines concepts, field-tested techniques and procedures, and technical information concerning crime scene investigation. This comprehensive text has been widely adopted by police academies, community colleges, and universities. Three professional organizations-the International Association for Identification, the American Board of Criminalistics, and the Forensic Science Society-recommend this book as a text to prepare for their certification examinations.

$89.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

The Use of Forensic Anthropology

Minor Traumatic Brain Injury Handbook: Diagnosis and Treatment

Description:

Forensic analysis has become and will continue to be a complicated and highly specialized field of study. Forensic investigations require teams of specialists from many different scientific fields in addition to legal and law enforcement personnel. Of the many specialties that are used in death investigations, forensic anthropology is most often associated with the analysis of skeletalized human remains.

$84.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

Almost two million individuals experience minor traumatic brain injury (MTBI/MATBI) each year. Patients from all over the country have similar - even identical - complaints from comparable types of trauma. Unfortunately, the vast majority of medical professionals do not recognize or understand the appearance, etiology, or problems associated with MTBI.

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Financial Investigation and Forensic Accounting

Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation: Practical Vocational, Neuropsychological, and Psychotherapy Interventions

Description:

Embezzlement, graft, fraud and money laundering are among the hardest crimes to prosecute. Investigation is impossible without an understanding of the law, accounting, finance, and banking procedures. Law enforcement must have the proper weapons to combat the evolving sophistication of financial crimes.

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Description:

Addressing the critical issues in community re-entry in a very practical manner, this book is suitable for all members of a community re-entry or brain-injury rehabilitation team.

$69.95 (Click HERE for more info)

   

Occupational Crime: Deterrence, Investigation, and Reporting in Compliance with Federal Guideline

Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR)

Description:

While organizational entities cannot be sent to prison, they can be heavily fined, ordered to make restitution, placed on probation, forced to forfeit property, suffer public and stakeholder recriminations, and can be forced out of business.  Whether you are starting from scratch or you wish to benchmark an existing program against another framework, this book takes you from legal mandates and program design to implementation and maintenance to help you develop an effective Employee Security-Awareness Program that accommodates the compliance needs specific to your organization.

$79.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) explores a powerful regressive, repetitive, desensitization procedure becoming known in the therapeutic community as an extremely effective tool for use in the rapid resolution of virtually all trauma-related conditions. Replete with case histories and accounts of actual TIR sessions, this book provides a "camera-level" view of TIR by describing the experience of performing TIR.

$54.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Medicolegal Issues for Radiographers - 3rd Edition

Cyber Crime Investigator's Field Guide

Description:

Designed to enhance the work and study of radiographers and imaging specialists, this book (now in its 3rd edition) provides critically relevant applications of the law from a radiographer's perspective. Written in a clear and highly understandable format, the book enlightens readers on medicolegal and ethical situations that they might encounter in their daily professional routine.

$49.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

Long gone are the days when a computer took up an entire room. Now we have computers at home, laptops that travel just about anywhere, and data networks that allow us to transmit information from virtually any location in a timely and efficient manner. What have these advancements brought us? Another arena for criminal activity. If someone wants to focus and target something, more than likely they will obtain what they want. We shouldn't expect it to be any different in cyberspace.

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Sex-Related Homicide and Death Investigation: Practical and Clinical Perspectives

Detecting Malingering and Deception: Forensic Distortion Analysis - Second Edition

Description:

Sex-related homicides claim victims from all walks of life, be they men or women, lovers or strangers, elders or children. They are some of the most horrific crimes imaginable, and unlike robbery-homicides or drug-related murders, the motives behind them are often not clear-cut.

$79.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

Although advances in clinical/forensic theory and technology continue to elucidate our understanding of deception analysis, the current state of the art is crude in most applications. With new interviewing techniques, psychological tests and instruments, Detecting Malingering and Deception: Forensic Distortion Analysis, Second Edition takes the reader far beyond the basic differentiation between malingering versus defensiveness as the two modes of distortion.

$119.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Geographic Profiling

A Radiologic Atlas of Abuse, Torture, Terrorism, and Inflicted Trauma

Description:

As any police officer who has ever walked a beat or worked a crime scene knows, the street has its hot spots, patterns, and rhythms: drug dealers work their markets, prostitutes stroll their favorite corners, and burglars hit their favorite neighborhoods. But putting all the geographic information together in cases of serial violent crime (murder, rape, arson, bombing, and robbery) is highly challenging.

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Description:

The results of aggression against humans can be hideously obvious, but may also be entirely concealed from casual inspection. Often, only exploration of the hidden recesses of the mind via psychiatric evaluation, or radiologic exploration of the inner recesses of the body can reveal the evidence of such violence. This book focuses on the latter.

$139.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Drug Interdiction: Partnerships, Legal Principles, and Investigative Methodologies for Law Enforcement

Expert Witnessing: Explaining and Understanding Science

Description:

Written by seasoned drug enforcement officials, this book provides a "cop's point of view" of domestic drug interdiction. It trains the reader to interview suspected drug couriers, ascertain whether an investigation is warranted, and employ an entire arsenal of investigative tools, including the drug canine. It also shows how to partner with the business community to combat the drug dilemma.

$69.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

Communication problems between science and the courts are widely deplored and sometimes exploited by a variety of groups. The U.S. Supreme Court has twice tightened the law of evidence to control the flow of information, but amazingly little has been written to analyze the nature of the problem and reduce the barriers.

$94.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Forensic Evidence: Science and the Criminal Law

Ethics in Forensic Science: Professional Standards for the Practice of Criminalistics

Description:

Forensic Evidence: Science and the Criminal Law is a comprehensive analysis of the most recent state and federal court decisions addressing the use of forensic science in the investigation and trial of criminal cases. Each case provides a complete overview and analysis of the relevant scientific issues debated by the court in that particular case.

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Description:

With the complexity of the interactions between the methodology of science, the principles of justice, and the realities of the practice of law and criminalistics, ethical issues frequently arise. One of the hallmarks of a profession is a code of ethics to govern the actions of members of the profession with one another, with users of the professional service, and with those who are affected by actions of the practitioner.

$74.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Applying Statistics in the Courtroom: A New Approach for Attorneys and Expert Witnesses

Endangered Children: Neonaticide, Infanticide, and Filicide

Description:

This publication is directed at both the attorney and the statistician to ensure they will successfully apply statistics in the law. The attorney will learn how best to utilize statistics while gaining an enriched understanding of the law on audits, jury selection, discrimination, environmental hazards, evidence, and torts as it relates to statistical issues.

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Description:

People are horrified when parents kill their children, yet this act occurs daily on a global basis. Endangered Children: Neonaticide, Infanticide and Filicide provides a psychological, sociological, and criminological perspective of these acts, as the authors answer the many questions that arise from these crimes.

$69.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Forensic Linguistics: Advances in Forensic Stylistics

Practical Drug Enforcement - Second Edition

Description:

With the aid of forensic linguistics, the words criminals leave behind in their unsigned letters can be as distinctive as a signature or voice. Although the linguistic study of language is well established, this important analytical tool is something new for many jurors, judges, attorneys, and other forensic specialists dealing with both criminal and civil cases.

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Description:

This publication is directed at both the attorney and the statistician to ensure they will successfully apply statistics in the law. The attorney will learn how best to utilize statistics while gaining an enriched understanding of the law on audits, jury selection, discrimination, environmental hazards, evidence, and torts as it relates to statistical issues.

$84.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Advances in Fingerprint Technology - Second Edition

Cyber Forensics: A Field Manual for Collecting, Examining, and Preserving Evidence of Computer Crimes

Description:

Fingerprints constitute one of the most important categories of physical evidence, and it is among the few that can be truly individualized. During the last two decades, many new and exciting developments have taken place in the field of fingerprint science, particularly in the realm of methods for developing latent prints and in the growth of imaging and AFIS technologies.

$89.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

Given our increasing dependency on computing technology in daily business processes, and the growing opportunity to use engineering technologies to engage in illegal, unauthorized, and unethical acts aimed at corporate infrastructure, every organization is at risk.

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An Introduction to Forensic DNA Analysis - Second Edition

Confidential Informant: Law Enforcement's Most Valuable Tool

Description:

Significant advances in DNA analysis techniques have surfaced since the 1997 publication of the bestselling An Introduction to Forensic DNA Analysis. DNA typing has become increasingly automated and miniaturized. Also, with the advent of Short Tandem Repeat (STR) technology, even the most minute sample of degraded DNA can yield a profile, providing valuable case information.

$74.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

He baffled and eluded law enforcement officers for nearly two decades. In the end, however, it wasn't the painstaking forensic analysis of hundreds of pieces of crime scene evidence that led to the capture of the Unabomber-but the lucky tip of an informant. Truth of the matter is, for all their sophistication and hi-tech science, crime-fighting techniques such as fingerprint and DNA analysis are a factor in less than one percent of all criminal cases.

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