Kimmerle, Erin H.

Skeletal trauma : identification of injuries resulting from human rights abuse and armed conflict / Erin H. Kimmerle, Jose Pablo Baraybar. - Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2008. - xxvi, 493 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

"A CRC title."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-475) and index.

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.

9780849392696 (alk. paper) 0849392691 (alk. paper)

2007034506

101314568 DNLM


Forensic osteology.
Musculoskeletal system--Wounds and injuries.
Human rights--Health aspects.
War victims--Yugoslavia.
Torture victims--Yugoslavia.
Forensic Anthropology.
Bone and Bones--injuries.
Human Rights Abuses.
Violence.
War Crimes.

RA1059 / .K56 2008

614/.17

W 750 / K49s 2008