Product Description

Written to assist in large-scale human rights violations, this seminal workdescribes the mechanisms of injuries, synthesizes variations in wounding patterns, and constructs an epidemiological framework for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting physical evidence for use at trial. It presents protocols for systemic data collection and methods for differential wound diagnosis. Contributions evaluate blasting injuries, blunt force trauma, skeletal evidence of torture, sharp force trauma, and gunfire injuries. Each chapter discusses wounding mechanisms, wound pathophysiology, relevant legal examples, and contributed case studies. Illustrated with more than 600 photographs, 16 representative case studies are evaluated from throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia and set in a legal framework.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #345442 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 520 pages

From the Back Cover
Based on solid research and extensive practice in the field, this timely and necessary work provides critical guidance and valuable tools for clinicians, forensic scientists, investigators, and activists confronted with physical trauma in areas of violent conflict. It underscores the importance of differential diagnosis based on types, number, and sequence of wounds and fractures, providing examples from human rights violations, ethnic conflicts, and modern warfare across the world. A CD is included containing photographs, illustrations, and forms for use in the field. This unique work will greatly aid those scientists and humanitarian workers committed to giving a truthful voice to the dead.