Skeletal Trauma: Identification of Injuries Resulting from Human Rights Abuse and Armed ConflictBorn 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 |
Contents
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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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