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Author Kimmerle, Erin H.

Title Skeletal trauma : identification of injuries resulting from human rights abuse and armed conflict / Erin H. Kimmerle, Jose Pablo Baraybar
Published Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (493 pages)
Contents An epidemiological approach to forensic investigations of violations to international humanitarian and human rights law -- Differential diagnosis of skeletal trauma -- Blasting injuries -- Blunt force trauma -- Skeletal evidence of torture -- Sharp force trauma -- Gunfire injuries -- Variation in gunfire wounds by skeletal region
Summary Covering large-scale human rights violations, this work describes the mechanisms of injuries, synthesizes variations in wounding patterns, and constructs a 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
Notes "A CRC title."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Forensic osteology.
Musculoskeletal system -- Wounds and injuries.
Human rights -- Health aspects
War victims -- Yugoslavia
Torture victims -- Yugoslavia
Forensic anthropology.
Violence.
War crimes.
Forensic Anthropology
Bone and Bones -- injuries
Human Rights Abuses
Violence
War Crimes
violence.
MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
War crimes
Violence
Forensic anthropology
Forensic osteology
Human rights -- Health aspects
Musculoskeletal system -- Wounds and injuries
Torture victims
War victims
Yugoslavia
Form Electronic book
Author Baraybar, José Pablo, 1964-
ISBN 9781420009118
1420009117
0429245378
9780429245374
1281238678
9781281238672
9786611238674
6611238670