Parikh’s Colour Atlas of Medicolegal Postmortems and Forensic Pathology 4th/2026

This is the thoroughly revised edition of the comprehensive atlas on forensic medicine and toxicology presenting classical photographs well supplemented by essential relevant text. A master piece on the subject, this book is an outcome of hard work of different generations of subject experts in the field. In a forensic science work pictures have their own unique place and cannot be replaced by any number of words. The fourth edition has over 1500 colour illustrations which will immensely help the medical and forensic science students, all levels of forensic practitioners, teachers, lawyers and members of law enforcing agencies, in deeply imbibing the essential elements of forensic medicine and toxicology. 

This atlas has 15 sections and 81 chapters presented in more than 540 pages covering major sections as general, dissection techniques, mechanical injuries, specific injuries, firearm injuries, thermal injuries, crime against women and children, sudden death, drugs and volatile substance abuse, miscellaneous fatalities, alcohol, toxicology, basic facilities and protocols.