Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to M I Avdeev.
Scientific progress and changes in social and legal conditions make it necessary to revise the classification of causes of death from time to time. In the classification I have suggested, both the biological causes of death (tabl. 1) and the social and legal conditons (tabl. 2) under which death occurred have been taken into consideration.
The analysis of classifications of causes of death contained in handbooks and manuals of pathological anatomy and forensic medicine revealed their contradictory character, inconsistency with the principles of logic, division according to one basis only; in these classifications of causes and circumstances leading to death. The author recommends to distinguish: a classification of causes of death (biological) and a classification of circumstances accompanying death (of social-legislative character).