死体の検死及び解剖の社会的意義と必要性

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Death of an individual member of a society has its significance not only for his own family but also for the community which he belonged to. This means that his death should be examined as precisely as possible from the view points of medicine and law, and that a specialist of legal medicine (medical examiner) only has a capability of this important social work; to determine the cause of death, the manner of death (accident, suicide, or homicide, etc.), the date of death, personal identification, etc. including necessary serological, toxicological and bacteriological examinations. However, the present system in Japan is, in fact, inadequate and incomplete in the aspects of the socially financial support, the number of staff, and, especially of the public understanding of inspection and autopsy to the dead. If this problem of insufficient death investigation system in Japan is not fundamentally solved, Japanese situation will remain out of date, and different kinds of complicated social problems, including organ-transplantation, succession to property and proper compensation, can not be solved with the highest degree of scientific and social justice.
金沢大学の論文
1998-10-30