In:
Medicine, Science and the Law, SAGE Publications, Vol. 40, No. 4 ( 2000-10), p. 350-357
Abstract:
We present a case of death caused by voluntary ingestion of non-organic foreign bodies observed at the Institute of Legal Medicine of the University of Trieste. The victim was a young schizophrenic patient whose death, at first giving rise to suspicions of murder by another psychiatric patient, was found to be caused by an uncommon chronic permanence of foreign bodies at different locations of the digestive tract which suddenly evolved into a series of simultaneous lethal complications as yet never described. The case also raised the issue of possible responsibilities of the subject's healthcare providers.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0025-8024
,
2042-1818
DOI:
10.1177/002580240004000411
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Publication Date:
2000
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2522207-7
SSG:
2
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