BROKEN BONES: Anthropological Analysis of Blunt Force Trauma (2nd Ed.)The editors, along with 15 outstanding contributors, comprehensively explore and provide an overview of the principles behind the interpretation of skeletal blunt force trauma. This expanded second edition provides a discussion on how to train for a career in forensic anthropology and offers guidance on how to complete a thorough trauma analysis. It also provides the labels given to different kinds of fractures and the biomechanical forces required to cause bone to fail and fracture. The text provides a theoretical framework for both evaluating published trauma studies and designing new ones. Experimental trauma research is an area ripe for research, and criteria to consider in choosing which non-human species to use in an actualistic study are offered. Common circumstances in which blunt force trauma is encountered are described. Information is provided on a variety of causes of death due to blunt force trauma. These causes range from accidental deaths to homicides due to blunt force from motor vehicle accidents, falls, strangulation, child and elder abuse, among others. Epidemiological information on whom is most likely affected by these various kinds of blunt force trauma is drawn from both the clinical and forensic literature. The most fundamental elements of the text are offered in four chapters where, bone by bone, fracture by fracture, the authors describe what to call each kind of fracture, what is known about how much force is required to break the bone that way, and fracture specific epidemiological information. This particular section of the text provides an invaluable reference source for forensic anthropologists and other osteologists to consult when looking at and trying to classify a bone fracture. Case studies are included to bring the book full circle back to considering the micro and macro bone changes that are seen when bone fails and fractures. The case studies are illustrative both of the concepts described through the book and of the high quality analyses forensic anthropologists contribute to medicolegal investigations of death every day. The text is further enhanced by 150 illustrations, some in color. This completely updated and expanded new volume is an essential reference for the forensic anthropology professional. |
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... defects and factures may be drawn. . . . . . . . . 2-3. Skeleton chart on which defects and fractures may be drawn. . . . . 3-1. Graphic representation of the relationship between stress and strain ...
... defect. The contributions forensic anthropologists make to medicolegal investigations of death are numerous, and on-going research in the field is slowly increasing the court-vetted methods available for skeletal analysis. Forensic ...
... defects and then render an opinion about the origin of those defects. This is just the first of many ways forensic anthropologists contribute to trauma analysis. Because the ways a skeleton may be impacted by a blunt instrument are too ...
... defects follows three stages that cover the handling of the remains and the context under which the remains exist and their usability in court proceedings. The first stage includes the preanalytic procedures of recovery, autopsy ...
... defects should be kept in general terms. For example, discoloration should be noted but not attributed to bruising or hemorrhage. Additionally, with regard to complex or subtle trauma, like child abuse, even when remains are not ...
Contents
Section III B | 327 |
Section III C | 336 |
Section III D | 350 |
Section III E | 362 |
Section III F | 369 |
Section III G | 379 |
Section III H | 391 |
Section III I | 399 |