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An Overview of Medical Examiner/Coroner Systems in the United States
URL: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/stl/June%20Forensics%20Hanzlick.pdf

Description:
This presentation examines the U.S. medical examiner and coroner system, covering history and development of the system, comparison of coroners and medical examiners (such as that coroners are usually not physicians, but medical examiners almost always are physicians and usually pathologists), current status and issues, and related topics. Opens directly into a PDF file. A presentation for the National Academies by a chief medical examiner and professor of forensic pathology.

LII Topics: Coroners, Death & Dying

Author:
Hanzlick, Randy

Publisher:
National Academies of Science

Extra Keywords
medicolegal death investigation

LII Database Information:
Record 24773 created by Jennifer English on 10/23/2007
Last modification on 10/23/2007
Published: 11/01/2007  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/24773

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