" Morphology is a witness which doesn't lie": Diagnosis by similarity relation and analogical inference in clinical forensic medicine

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 866-872

  Rees, Gethin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Experts; Forensic Medicine; Injury; Scotland; Training; UK

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TREATMENT; HEALTH WORKER; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MEDICINE;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC REASONING; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM; WORK EXPERIENCE;

FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SCOTLAND; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 80052273124     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.02.032     Document Type: Article

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