Skeletal Trauma: Identification of Injuries Resulting from Human Rights Abuse and Armed Conflict

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CRC Press, 19 feb. 2008 - 520 pagini

Born out of the need to recover, analyze, and present physical evidence on thousands of individual victims of large-scale human rights violations, multi-national, multi-disciplinary forensic teams developed a sophisticated system for the examination of human remains and set a precedent for future investigations. Codifying this process, Skeletal

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Chapter 1 An Epidemiological Approach to Forensic Investigations of Violations to International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law
1
Chapter 2 Differential Diagnosis of Skeletal Injuries
21
Chapter 3 Blast Injuries
95
Chapter 4 Blunt Force Trauma
151
Chapter 5 Skeletal Evidence of Torture
201
Chapter 6 Sharp Force Trauma
263
Chapter 7 Gunfire Injuries
321
Chapter 8 Variation in Gunfire Wounds by Skeletal Region
401
References
449
Index
477
Back cover
503
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Erin H. Kimmerle, Jose Pablo Baraybar

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