15th Edition

Simpson's Forensic Medicine

Edited By Jason Payne-James, Richard Martin Jones Copyright 2026
430 Pages 394 Color & 28 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

430 Pages 394 Color & 28 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

430 Pages 394 Color & 28 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

The Fifteenth Edition of Simpson's Forensic Medicine provides an overview of all that is relevant in practice at the interface between medicine and law. Its long-standing reputation as one of the world's leading introductory texts in the field of forensic & legal medicine is reflected by easy-to-read and informative text, complemented by numerous colour images, tables and figures.... Read more

Medicine, Science and the Law

1 Principles of forensic practice     

2 The ethics of medical practice

3 Medicolegal aspects of death

 Forensic Pathology

4 Violence in society, medicolegal investigation of death and the autopsy

5 The appearance of the body after death                                                                             

6 Death from natural causes                                                                                                  

7 Deaths and injury in infancy                                                                                

 The pathology of trauma

8 Assessment, classification and documentation of injury                                     

9 Ballistic injuries                                                                                    

10 Regional injuries and patterns of injury                                              

 Common topics in forensic pathology

11 Pressure to the neck & asphyxia deaths   

12 Heat, cold & electrical trauma                 

13 Immersion and drowning                         

 Clinical Forensic Medicine

14 Identification of the living and the dead   

15 Restraint and control techniques              

16 Police custodial healthcare        

17 Sexual assault and genitoanal injury and female genital mutilation

18 Safeguarding and protection of children and vulnerable adults

19 Transportation medicine

20 Torture, and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment

21 Principles of forensic science and crime scene investigation

22 Principles of toxicology

23 Alcohol (ethanol)         

24 Licit and illicit drugs   

25 Medicinal poisons and miscellaneous poisons

26 Miscellaneous poisons 

Biography

Professor Jason Payne-James, LLM, MSc, FFFLM, FRCS (Eng. & Edin.), FRCP, FCSFS, RCPathME, FFCFM(RCPA), DFM, LBIPP. Specialist in Forensic & Legal Medicine & Consultant Forensic Physician. Honorary Clinical Professor, William Harvey Research Institute, Centre for Clinical Pharmacology and Precision Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London. Lead Medical Examiner, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich. President, European Council of Legal & Forensic Medicine. Director, Forensic Health Services Ltd, Southminster, United Kingdom

Richard Jones, BSc(Hons), MBBS, PgCUTL, FRCPath, FHEA, MCIEH, MFFLM, MRSPH. Clinical Senior Lecturer in Forensic Pathology, Wales Institute of Forensic Medicine. Cardiff University School of Medicine. College of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Cardiff. Home Office-Registered Forensic Pathologist, Honorary Consultant Forensic Pathologist, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Cardiff, United Kingdom