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Post-mortem examination and certification of death under G.D.R. law
1Institute of Forensic Medicine, Humboldt University, Berlin, G.D.R.
Forensic Science International
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Post-mortem examination and certification of death in the G.D.R. are regulated by the Order on the Medical Post-mortem Examination (O.M.P.E.) issued in 1949 and confirmed in 1978. The tasks of the doctor certifying death are described as well as the co-operation between police, district attorney, and pathologist, and legal doctor, respectively, in all cases of death 'under suspicious circumstances.' Medical as well as judicial aspects of post-mortem examination are discussed.
