José Eduardo Lima Pinto da Costa

Legal medicine owes him the visibility and respect that was not there before his professional activity in Portugal”, said his wife, Maria José Pinto da Costa, Professor of Legal Medicine and Forensic Toxicology at the University of Porto's Biomedical Sciences Institute Abel Salazar (ICBAS). Pin...

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Published inThe Lancet (British edition) Vol. 399; no. 10339; p. 1936
Main Author Green, Andrew
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 21.05.2022
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Aggression
Autopsies
Biocompatibility
Domestic violence
Forensic science
Forensic toxicology
Legal medicine
Medicine
Psychology
Regulatory reform
Sex crimes
Teaching
Toxicology
Yeast
Portugal
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Summary:Legal medicine owes him the visibility and respect that was not there before his professional activity in Portugal”, said his wife, Maria José Pinto da Costa, Professor of Legal Medicine and Forensic Toxicology at the University of Porto's Biomedical Sciences Institute Abel Salazar (ICBAS). Pinto da Costa also served as a Professor of Legal Medicine at the private Portucalense Infante D Henrique University in Porto from 1986 until his death and he taught in public and private universities across the country on subjects ranging from forensic psychology to criminology and medical law. Pinto da Costa also pushed to strengthen rules for reporting intimate partner violence and to create facilities where survivors could find shelter, while also recruiting psychologists and lawyers who could offer them free support.
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ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00883-2