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Forensic medicine in South Africa: associations between medical practice and legal case progression...

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Forensic medicine in South Africa: associations between medical practice and legal case progression and outcomes in female murders

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Forensic medicine in South Africa: associations between medical practice and legal case progression and outcomes in female murders

Publisher

United States: Public Library of Science

Journal title

PloS one, 2011-12, Vol.6 (12), p.e28620-e28620

Language

English

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United States: Public Library of Science

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Contents

Forensic medicine has been largely by-passed by the tide of health systems research and evidence based medicine. Murder victims form a central part of forensic medical examiners' case load, and women murdered by intimate partners are an important subgroup, representing the most severe form and consequence of intimate partner violence. Our aim was t...

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Forensic medicine in South Africa: associations between medical practice and legal case progression and outcomes in female murders

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TN_cdi_plos_journals_1312176495

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_plos_journals_1312176495

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ISSN

1932-6203

E-ISSN

1932-6203

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0028620

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