Professor Patrice MANGIN President of the XVlth Congress of the International Academy of Legal Medicine and Social Medicine The International Academy of Legal Medicine and Social Medicine was founded in 1938 in Bonn.

This book contains the scientific reports of recent advances in legal medicine and directly related sciences.
Various topics are covered by leading scientists in the fields of clinical legal medicine, bodily damage evaluation, and forensic odontoanthropology, and also biological advances such as toxicology and DNA technology including polymorphic DNA systems such as VNTR, STR, and other PCR based polymorphysms. Ethical problems and forensic psychiatry and jurismedicine are also treated.
Thus, this volume offers useful data and methods that can be directly used by scientists working in the fields of forensic and legal medicine, forensic science, toxicology, population genetics, anthropology, forensic odontology, ethics, and forensic psychiatry.