Subject Area and Category
SJR 2024
0.124 Q4
H-Index
5
Publication type
Journals
Scope
The Italian Review of Legal Medicine and Law in Healthcare Area is the official publication of the Italian Society of Legal and Insurance Medicine (SIMLA).
It is also published in cooperation with two prestigious Italian institutes of juridical research, respectively involved in penal and in civil field: the Centro Studi “Federico Stella” sulla Giustizia penale e la Politica criminale (CSGP), operating at the Università Cattolica of Milan, and the Laboratorio Interdisciplinare Diritti e Regole, operating at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa.
This “joint venture” represents the traditional, double face of the Journal since its establishment, in the year 1979.
During the following decades this linkage has been particularly fruitful, mostly because in Italy the operating rules of the Legal Medicine are strictly connected not only with the criminalistics institutions (essentially connected with the penal law and penal jurisdiction, in other countries pertaining to the coroner), but also with the civil law and the corresponding institutions, to whom the Italian Legal Medicine contribute with many activities, added to the classic forensic tasks (autopsies, crime scene investigations, forensic toxicology and genetics, criminology, etc.).
In this particular perspective, the Legal Medicine is burdened with evaluation of impairment, handicap and disability for social insurance and with the evaluation of the psycho-physical damage for private insurance.
Furthermore, the Italian Legal Medicine is involved, also in the Academic Institutions in regard to deontological, normative and juridical questions inherent to medical malpractice, defensive medicine and any question belonging to the “new deal” of bio-medicine (living wills, euthanasia, assisted reproduction, etc.).