%0 Journal Article %T La necesidad pericial forense del Estado costarricense The need of forensic expertise in Costa Rica %A Enriqueta Rojas Aguilar %A Delmi Yanira Choto De Contreras %A Rodrigo V芍squez Retana %J Medicina Legal de Costa Rica %D 2007 %I Asociaci車n Costarricense de Medicina Forense %X En esta investigaci車n se plantea el problema desde la 車ptica de la necesidad pericial que tiene el estado costarricense y como podr赤a cambiar la prestaci車n de servicios ante la aprobaci車n de los tratados de libre comercio con otras naciones conocidos com迆nmente como TLC si se promueve la privatizaci車n de las pericias m谷dico legales, lo que plantea una interrogante seria Cu芍l ser赤a el impacto social en el caso de que se privatizaran las pericias m谷dico legales? Ademas se cuestionan los siguientes asuntos c車mo garantizar la cadena de custodia con la privatizaci車n de las pericias m谷dico legales y cu芍les deben ser las funciones del Departamento de Medicina Legal? In this investigation the issue is stated from the expertise necessity*s point of view that the Costa Rican state has and how would it change the rendering of services before the approval of free commerce trades with other countries, known as TLC, if a privatization of the medical legal expertise is promoted, which implies a serious question: what would be the social impact en case that the medical legal expertise is privatized? Also it would be questioned the following matters: how to guarantee the custody chain with the privatization of the medical legal expertise and which have to be the functions of the Legal Medicine Department? %K Necesidad pericial %K TLC %K privatizaci車n pericias m谷dico legales %K cadena custodia %K Departamento de Medicina Legal %K Expertise necessity %K TLC %K privatization of the medical legal expertise %K custody chain %K Legal Medicine Department %U http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1409-00152007000100002