The Story of a Booklet-Writing by a Young Academician at a Legal Medicine Chair

Sinan Çaya 
(Marmara University, Turkey)

Abstract: This article is basically the story of the writing process of a booklet on toxicology at the legal medicine department of a faculty of medicine. With a view to postmodernist considerations; the article depicts which motives may drive a young individual in his attempts to realize a scientific activity while it also verifies that scientific interests are of a selective nature and are closely related to personality and former life experiences. At the end of the article the mentioned toxicology booklet is also roughly introduced.

Key words: legal medicine, poison, poisonous, toxicology, scientific curiosity