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The upcoming articles will Focus on forensic pathology. Forensic pathology, unlike its sister discipline forensic science, does not change quickly or have dramatic developments such as the current DNA revolution. Indeed, because its base is the interpretation of autopsy findings, forensic pathology still rests largely on the principles of morbid anatomy founded in the nineteenth century and earlier. However, this is not to say that it remains fossilized.   In particular, the sections on chid abuse, head injuries and traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage have been amended or supplemented. Sixty new illustrations have been incorporated, and another area of attention has been the references and recommended reading, as there were some textual citations not listed in the first edition -and very many more have added. However, the literature is now so vast, both in forensic journals and scattered profusely throughout other specialist publications, that it is futile to try to capture al...