Medical-Legal Aspects of Alcohol, Fourth Edition

Forensic alcohol analysis is without question the most frequently performed of all analyses in forensic laboratories, and likewise is the most commonly used laboratory result in courts of law. Alcohol-related litigation most frequently pertains to arrests of drinking drivers, but also includes industrial accidents as well as other public transport accidents.

Medical-Legal Aspects of Alcohol, now in its fourth edition, has been a classic text on the forensic science of alcohol for the last fifteen years. The new edition has been revised and updated and includes a new chapter dealing with alcohol's effects on the driver written by Dr. Herbert Moskowitz, a leading authority in this field. Chapters on the subject of pharmacology and toxicology, disposition of alcohol in the body, psychomotor performance, test procedures, postmortem testing, workplace testing specimen handling, quality assurance in the laboratory and legal aspects have been revised and updated to provide current information. The authors include some of the foremost scientists in the field of alcohol research in the world.