The aim of this chapter is to explain what legal medicine is (from its background to the present), and forensic pathology in particular — what its objectives are, what forensic doctors do, and when, why, how, and for whom. Furthermore, the author aims to identify their main difficulties and expectancies.

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National Legal Medicine Institute
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