Medicolegal Manual by Dr. K. S. Narayan Reddy – 9th Edition 2025

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Dr. K. S. Narayan Reddy’s Medicolegal Manual is an essential comprehensive reference guide for medical and legal professionals dealing with forensic medicine and medicolegal matters. This authoritative manual covers an extensive range of critical topics including medical law and ethics, legal procedures, and preservation of medicolegal evidence. The book provides detailed insights into various types of deaths such as dowry deaths, starvation deaths, sudden unexpected deaths, and instantaneous physiologic deaths, along with comprehensive coverage of medicolegal masquerades and scene of crime investigation. It thoroughly addresses medicolegal autopsy procedures, examination techniques, identification methods, and death causation analysis. The manual explores specialised areas including casualty services, medicolegal aspects of wounds, systemic response to trauma, postmortem injuries, traffic accidents, mass disasters, and thermal deaths including burns and heat stroke. Additional chapters cover sexual offences, virginity and pregnancy matters, abortion, infant deaths, DNA fingerprinting, blood stains, artefacts, toxicology including common household poisons, and drug-related deaths. Edited by a distinguished board including M. Ravi Kumar, ON Krishna, and Ajay Gogia, this publication by ALT Publications serves as an invaluable resource for advocates, medical practitioners, forensic experts, and students pursuing medicolegal studies.