Forensic medicine of the lower extremity : human identification and trauma analysis of the thigh, leg, and foot /

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Imprint:Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2005.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 421 p.) : ill.
Language:English
Series:Forensic science and medicine
Forensic science and medicine.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8877313
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Other authors / contributors:Rich, Jeremy (Jeremy McMaster)
Dean, Dorothy E.
Powers, Robert H.
ISBN:158829269X (alk. paper)
9781588292698 (alk. paper)
1592598978 (e-ISBN)
9781592598977 (e-ISBN)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:This comprehensive collection of rigorous review articles covers both the scientific and practical aspects of using of lower extremity remains for human identification and trauma analysis. On the scientific side, the authors describe the biochemical events of decomposition, detail the use of radiology to facilitate identification and evaluate trauma, and explain principles of osteology, with an emphasis on the implications for skeletal anatomy for age, sex, race, and height estimation. On the practical side, they apply these approaches to trauma analysis and accident reconstruction, including.
Other form:Forensic medicine of the lower extremity : human identification and trauma analysis of the thigh, leg, and foot