Abstract

BARBOZA QUIROS, Martín. Aplicación del método científico en la realización de peritajes médico legales. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2015, vol.32, n.1, pp.96-101. ISSN 2215-5287.

The Legal Medicine is the medical specialty that reunites all medical knowledge useful to justice administration, performing a vital role as facilitator of the knowledge exchange between medical science and legal science. The scientific management required to perform a medico-legal expertise is a determinant factor for the adequate justice administration. When the Judicial Authority requests a medico-legal expertise, it should be understood as a request for a scientific investigation in which the specialist in Legal Medicine is obliged to completely fulfilled this requirement as a scientist, basing his investigation in the application of the scientific method. In this review, it is analized the importance of the application of the scientific method in the elaboration of a medico legal expertise.

Keywords : Medico-legal expertise; Legal Medicine; scientific method; medico-legal investigation.

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