title: [The legal and forensic medical problems related to the determination of viability of the fetuses and newborn infants under the present-day conditions].
abstract: The authors consider from the historical and methodological standpoints the problem of the determination and expert evaluation of viability of the fetuses and newborn infants in the case of expert examination of their corpses and performance of complicated forensic medical expertises concerned with medical aspects of obstetric practice. It was shown that the new medical criteria for birth introduced in 2013 pose the question of their relation to the known signs of viability of the fetuses and/or newborn infants and the necessity of further substantiation of such point of view for taking the correct legal decision.
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Kovalev
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Pletianova
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Fetisov
mesh_terms: D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D005328:Fetal Viability; D005333:Fetus / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D049429:Forensic Pathology / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D066088:Infant Death / Q000209:etiology*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007883:Legislation, Medical; D066087:Perinatal Death / Q000209:etiology*; D011247:Pregnancy