The Hospital Ethics Committee and the Ethics Consultant Hospital ethics committees have evolved over the past several decades to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of ethical problems arising…
Clinical Ethics and the Law The ideal standards of medical conduct are dictated by medical ethics. A parallel and frequently overlapping standard of medical conduct is that regulated by the…
Professional Ethics and Professionalism Neurologists, like all physicians and all learned professionals, are bound by a set of ethical duties to those whom they serve professionally. Physicians’ ethical duties are…
Ethical Practice The rules resulting from moral theory must be translated into practical concepts to be directly applicable at the bedside and in the clinic. This chapter introduces the concepts…
Ethical Theory Neurologists routinely encounter ethical problems in everyday clinical practice. To resolve these clinical-ethical problems, usually they draw on their medical experience, clinical judgment, and moral intuitions rather than…
Intoxications Mary Ripple Juan C. Troncoso Ana Rubio Barry Levine One of the basic principles of toxicology is that any substance can be toxic in the appropriate concentration. Exposure to…
New Applications of Postmortem Neuroradiology in the Forensic Investigation of Death Barry Daly Robert Morales Modern neuroimaging, especially computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), has revolutionized practice and…
Neurodegenerative Diseases Juan C. Troncoso Olga Pletnikova In this chapter, we provide a practical approach for the assessment of neurodegenerative disease in a forensic institution. The forensic neuropathologist is frequently…
Artifacts and Mimickers Juan C. Troncoso Artifacts are common occurrences in the examination of autopsy brains as a result of postmortem putrefaction and autolysis and the removal, handling, and fixation…
Infections of the Central Nervous System Ana Rubio This chapter reviews infectious diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) as seen in forensic neuropathology. Worldwide, few areas of pathology present…
