COURSE SYLLABUS

Definition, purpose, method and system of forensic medicine.
General notions of law: public and private law; constitutional law; substantive civil and criminal law; civil and criminal liability; the criminal offence, the offender, the offence, the criminal sanction; the tort, the damage, compensation for damage; civil and criminal procedural law. The Italian judicial system. The relationship of material causality: notion of cause; legal causality, human causality; criteria of judgement for the admission or exclusion of the aetiological link in forensic medicine.
Bioethics and professional deontology: Concept of bioethics - The code of medical deontology - Ethical standards and legal standards - Ethical, deontological, disciplinary responsibility - The doctor-patient relationship: doctor's rights and duties; the doctor's position of guarantee; the medical act and the faculty to treat; the consent of the person entitled and L.219 /2017; the obligation to provide assistance: failure to provide assistance; the doctor's professional liability; clinical documentation; the doctor's duties of confidentiality: professional secrecy, the patient's right to confidentiality - The doctor's duties of disclosure: report and complaint, mandatory notifications.
Criminal forensic medicine: The clinical-biological relevance of crimes against the person (murder - infanticide - criminal abortion - battery - personal injury) and against personal freedom (sexual violence).
Civil forensic medicine: The assessment of biological damage in civil liability - L. 24/2017.
Social medicine: The social security system, INPS, INAIL, civil invalidity, disability - Private insurance - Law 194 on the voluntary interruption of pregnancy - The protection of maternity - Organ transplants - The doctor's competences in emergencies; the concept of catastrophe: disasters and natural calamities; the organisation of interventions in catastrophes.
Forensic psychopathology: Imputability and criminal responsibility - Legal capacity, capacity to act, interdiction, incapacitation, natural incapacity, the support administrator - Psychopathological aspects of crimes against property through violence against persons: the crime of circumvention of an incapable.
Thanatology and forensic pathology: ascertaining the reality of death - Medico-legal necropsy investigations: external inspection and autopsy - The chronology of death: consecutive and transformative phenomena - The mortuary police regulations - The general assessment of the The differential diagnosis between homicide, suicide and accident - The lesivity by mechanical physical energy: blunt force injuries; gunshot injuries; violent mechanical asphyxia - The lesivity by electrical, baric, thermal physical energy - Sudden death. Forensic anthropology: Personal identification - Fingerprints - Radiological identification - Immunohaematological investigations - DNA - Techniques and methods of forensic medical examination - Bloodstains at the crime scene.
Forensic Toxicology: Notion of poison and diagnosis of poisoning and intoxication - Main poisons and major poisonings - Alcohol and narcotics - Regulation of narcotics - Alcohol and vehicle driving.

READING MATERIALS
Di Luca N.M.; Feola T.; Marinelli E. Nuovo Compendio di Medicina Legale, II edizione. Editore: Minerva Medica -2021.
Feola T.; Arcangeli M.; Marsella L.T. Fondamenti medico-legali della responsabilità professionale. Editore: Minerva Medica-2017