Forensic Medicine category: 194 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Medicolegal Library is the first and only series of its kind. Its importance is self-evident. During the last decade, science, especial ly medical practice, has become an increasingly complex under taking. Recent dramatic developments in medicine have given rise to both theoretical controversies...
Beethoven's Hair
An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
The basis for the movie of the same name, an astonishing tale of one lock of hair and its amazing travels--from nineteenth-century Vienna to twenty-first-century America.
When Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great...
Theories and Applications in the Detection of Deception
A Psychophysiological and International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"Polygraphy;' "lie detection;' and the "detection of deception" are all terms that refer to an application of the science of psychophysiology, which itself employs physiological measures to study and differentiate between psychological processes. The issues raised by polygraphy...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The definitive text for students of digital forensics, as well as professionals looking to deepen their understanding of an increasingly critical field
Written by faculty members and associates of the world-renowned Norwegian Information Security Laboratory (NisLab) at the Norwegian University...
by William H. Simon
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Ham Marks, MD is a talented forensic orthopedist who has given up active surgical practice. He isnt a spy, soldier, or secret agentand yet he always seems to be ducking murder attempts and stopping would-be criminals. Comprised of two thrilling novellas, Prescription: Murder follows Dr. Marks as he...
Criminal Profiling
International Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2007
In this book, renowned profiler Dr. Richard Kocsis presents a distinct approach to profiling called Crime Action Profiling or CAP. The volume explains the scope and methodology employed in the studies that the author has undertaken over the past decade and a half. CAP adopts the view that profiling...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
This brief highlights advances in DNA technologies and their wider applications. DNA is the source of life and has been studied since a generation, but very little is known as yet. Several sophisticated technologies of the current era have laid their foundations on the principle of DNA based mechanisms....
Essentials of Autopsy Practice
Reviews, Updates, and Advances
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This book covers topical subjects within the field of death investigation, where changes in practice have recently occurred. As the area of dating of wounds has changed since the subject was addressed in a previous volume, this subject is revisited for the first time. The remaining subjects covered...
Fingerprint Development Techniques
Theory and Application
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
A comprehensive review of the latest fingerprint development and imaging techniques
With contributions from leading experts in the field, Fingerprint Development Techniques offers a comprehensive review of the key techniques used in the development and imaging of fingerprints. It includes a...
by M. van de Poel-Bot, R.L. Zielhuis, M.M. Verberk
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In 1980 the Directorate-General of Labor, Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, the Netherlands, requested the Coronel Laboratory for Occupational and Environmental Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Amsterdam, to carry out "a critical study of literature on health risks to women...
Crib Death - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
Sudden Infant and Perinatal Unexplained Death: The Pathologist's Viewpoint
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Crib death or sudden infant death syndrome is the most frequent death-causing syndrome during the first year of life, striking one infant in every 700-1,000. Despite a wide spectrum of theories and years of research, crib death remains a great enigma. This book describes systematic studies of the...
Atlas of Adult Autopsy
A Guide to Modern Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
This atlas leads the reader through the adult autopsy process, and its common variations, with a large number of high-quality macroscopic photographs and concise accompanying text. It provides a manual of current practice and is an easy-to-use resource for case examination for consent, medico-legal...
Rorschach Assessment of Adolescents
Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
This book serves as an up-to-date Rorschach primer and elaborates on the various applications of Rorschach assessment for adolescents with respect to differential diagnosis, forensic consultation, and therapeutic assessment. It opens with three chapters that provide readers with a basic overview and...
Essentials of Autopsy Practice
Recent Advances, Topics and Developments
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Essentials of Autopsy Practice updates the modern pathologist on issues related to the autopsy. This volume contains topical chapters on the pathology of shock, religious attitudes to death, incised wounds, radiological investigations, metabolic disorders in childhood, maternal deaths, body alterations...