This is an essential text for anyone involved in medico-legal work, but it is unlikely to be produced much in the courtroom.
And unlike the case of epidemics, new behavioral regimes and medico-political ceremonies cannot simultaneously preserve public health while expanding state power.
This is of significance in the medico-legal setting when third party compensation for head injury has to be decided.
Two of the questions, dealing with medico-legal implications and suggestions for further action, relate to points that may not be addressed in some publications.
If relevant to the assessment, are medico-legal implications considered?
A final section includes four papers on ethical, social and medico-legal problems.
The relationship between literary representations of psychic pain and medico-psychological formulations of trauma needs therefore to be closely examined.
This research also has medico-legal and political implications.