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- Title
From Deutsche Zeitschrift to International Journal of Legal Medicine—100 years of legal medicine through the lens of journal articles: Part 2: Deutsche Zeitschrift für die gesamte gerichtliche Medizin from 1948 to 1969.
- Authors
Wirth, Ingo; Fracasso, Tony; Pfeiffer, Heidi; Schmeling, Andreas
- Abstract
The interruption of the publication of the Deutsche Zeitschrift für die gesamte gerichtliche Medizin due to the war ended with volume 39 for the years 1948/1949. Until volume 66/1969, the journal appeared unchanged under the historical title. The 912 publications contained in the 28 volumes of these two decades cover topics from the main fields of forensic medicine, but also from related and unrelated disciplines. The topic-specific analysis of the publications shows a shift of the research focus in the German institutes since the post-war period. This is most evident in the decline in the number of publications from the fields of scientific and technical criminalistics as well as forensic psychiatry and psychology. An opposite trend with a significant increase in scientific papers was observed in alcohology, forensic genetics and traffic medicine. While the evaluated publications on most topics contain new findings that are still valid today, the use of blood group characteristics for forensic purposes came to an end as a result of the introduction of DNA analysis.
- Subjects
FORENSIC medicine; PERIODICAL articles; FORENSIC psychiatry; BLOOD groups; FORENSIC genetics; DNA analysis; FORENSIC psychology
- Publication
International Journal of Legal Medicine, 2023, Vol 137, Issue 1, p279
- ISSN
0937-9827
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00414-022-02912-z