Keywords:
Forensic pathology.
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Homicide.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Dr. Lester Adelson's original The Pathology of Homicide has been described as a "superb textbook" and "without doubt...the best written book of its type in the English language" by Dr. Charles Hirsch. This new, revised edition preserves Dr. Adelson's eloquent and articulate voice, while bringing the subject matter up to date. Since the first edition was published in 1974, Dr. Adelson's book was a treasured text among many forensic pathologists. The "aging" of the book, however, made it less appealing to the new generation of forensic pathologists, and Dr. Adelson's important contribution to forensic pathology was at risk of being lost. Although much has changed in forensic pathology in the ensuing nearly fifty years since it was first written, much also has stayed the same. In this new edition, the author, Dr. James Gill--Chief Medical Examiner of the State of Connecticut and past president of the National Association of Medical Examiners--preserves the voice, vision, and wisdom of Dr. Adelson while updating the forensic pathology material. The author has included nearly 700 all new color images. In addition, the references have been updated with over 4,400 citations. Six new chapters and sections have been added, including death certification, elder abuse, pediatric head injury, drugs of misuse, histopathology, and bereavement. Other updates are included on DNA technology, CT scans, and novel drugs. Although primarily concerned with homicides, there is the need to be able to recognize natural, accidental, and suicidal deaths; therefore, these topics are interspersed in the text to give the appropriate context. This book will help the reader understand the details of injuries and how a person was injured, why they died, and how these injuries, perhaps at first blush seemingly insignificant, can shed new light on a death investigation. It is the
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (795 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9780398093914
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=30171806
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Adelson's THE PATHOLOGY OF HOMICIDE -- FOREWORD -- FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION -- PREFACE -- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO THE FIRST EDITION -- CONTENTS -- Adelson's THE PATHOLOGY OF HOMICIDE -- Chapter 1 THE FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST -- Homicide Defined -- Criminal, Justifiable, and Excusable Homicide -- Some Dimensions of the Homicide Problem in the United States -- ENTER THE FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST -- Forensic Pathology Workforce Challenges -- The Pathology of Homicide -- The Corpus Delicti -- The Homicide Investigation Team and Roles -- The Detective -- The Trace Evidence Expert -- The Crime Scene Technicians and Other Forensic Specialist -- The Medicolegal Death Investigator -- The Forensic Biologist -- The Forensic Anthropologist -- The Forensic Toxicologist -- The Forensic Odontologist -- The Forensic Pathologist -- The Medicolegal Autopsy -- The "High-Profile" Second Autopsy -- THE PATHOLOGIST'S CONTRIBUTION TO HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION -- Detection and Diagnosis of the Unsuspected Homicide -- Uncovering the Unsuspected Homicide -- The Forensic Pathologist and Non-Anatomic Corporal Evidence -- Evidence for the Forensic Pathologist -- The Search for Truth -- "Medicolegal Masquerades" -- Cognitive Bias -- The Forensic Pathologist as a Witness -- The Forensic Pathologist as Defendant and Qualified Immunity -- Work Stress -- A Medicolegal Profile in Courage -- The Forensic Pathologist's Role in Organ and Tissue Donation -- The Forensic Pathologist's Professional Societies -- The Forensic Pathologist and the Funeral Director -- The Press -- The Perfect Murder -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 THE SCENE -- The Medicolegal Investigator at the Scene of Death or Discovery -- The Medicolegal Death Investigator -- Narrowing the Estimate of the Time of Death.
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Significance of the Distribution of Livor and Rigor Mortis -- Reconstruction of the Fatal Incident -- Modus Operandi of the Scene Visit -- On-the-Scene Photography -- Standards of Photographic Adequacy -- Long-Range Values of On-the-Scene Photography -- Examination of the Victim at the Scene -- On-Scene Investigative Issues -- The Exchange of Traces -- The Victim and the Evidentiary Package -- The Mishandling of Evidence -- The Uses and Abuses of Evidence -- MDI Office Duties -- Cremation Clearances -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 THE FORENSIC AUTOPSY -- INTRODUCTION -- SIX CRITICAL QUESTIONS -- 1. Who Are You? -- 2. When Were You Hurt? When Did You Become Ill? When Did You Die? -- 3. Where Did You Get Hurt? Where Did You Die? -- 4. Did You Die as a Result of Violence, From Natural Causes or From a Combination of Both: -- 5. If Violence was Completely or Partially Responsible for your Death, Was it Suicidal, Accidental, or Homicidal? -- 6. If Someone Killed You, Who Did It? -- THE PATHOLOGIST AND THE FORENSIC POSTMORTEM EXAMINATION -- DISROBING THE HOMICIDE VICTIM-THE VALUE OF VESTMENTS -- The Pathologist and the Victim's Clothes -- Autopsy Room Photography -- Undressing the Victim -- Clothing -- Identification -- DNA Evidence on Clothing -- OBJECTIVE ANATOMIC DOCUMENTATION: PHOTOGRAPHY AND RADIOGRAPHY -- The Rationale for Anatomic Medicolegal Photography -- Autopsy Room Photography -- The Forensic Value of Images -- Radiologic Studies -- Computerized Tomography (CT) Scans and Full Body Scanners -- The Virtual Autopsy (Virtopsy) -- THE MEDICOLEGAL AUTOPSY -- Gross Anatomic Examination -- Histologic Studies -- External Examination -- Details of Recent Injury -- Internal Examination -- DNA TESTING -- Toxicological Studies -- Other Evidentiary Items -- Fingerprinting -- Putrefied and Mummified Fingers -- ANTEMORTEM AND POSTMORTEM ARTEFACTS.
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Antemortem Artefacts Created by Therapy -- Postmortem Changes and Artefacts-Origin and Interpretation -- Postmortem Artefacts -- Differentiating Antemortem from Postmortem Injuries -- Improper Autopsy Procedures -- Postmortem Injuries as Part of the Overall Fatal Assault -- Other Antemortem Phenomena -- Artefacts by the Funeral Director -- Artefacts Created by Insects and Animals -- Changes Created by Autolysis and Putrefaction -- The Hospital Pathologist and the Putrefied Decedent -- The Decline of the Hospital Autopsy -- THE MEDICOLEGAL AUTOPSY PROTOCOL -- DIVIDENDS OF THE MEDICOLEGAL AUTOPSY -- Reconstruction of the Fatal Incident -- The Necessity of Objectivity -- The Limitations of the Medical Evidence -- The Degree of Homicide -- Inference of Intent and Purpose -- MEDICOLEGAL ETIQUETTE -- Objection to Autopsy -- SAFETY -- Sharp Injury Risk -- Inhalation Risk -- Radiation Risk -- Cardioverter-defibrillators Risk -- Autopsy Tools -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 THE DEATH CERTIFICATE -- How to Certify a Death: Cause, Manner, and Mechanism of Death -- CAUSE OF DEATH -- Mechanism of Death -- MANNER OF DEATH -- COMMON DEATH CERTIFICATION MISTAKES -- The Certainty of the Cause of Death -- Delayed Death -- Post-Traumatic Sequelae and Complications -- The Nature of the Victim -- The Death Certificate and the Insurance Company -- The Basic Responsibility of the Pathologist -- THE HIRSCH SCHOOL -- The Proximate Cause of Death -- Natural Death -- Homicide -- The Descriptive Death Certificate -- Sudden Cardiac Death -- Chronic Alcoholism, Intoxications, and Submersion in Water -- Therapeutic Complication -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 IDENTIFICATION: WHO ARE YOU? -- INTRODUCTION -- Factors Bearing on the Difficulties of Identification -- The Decedent's Age -- Listing as a Missing Person -- Postmortem Changes -- Approaches to Body Identification.
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False Positive and False Negative Identification -- The Credibility of the Identifier -- TECHNIQUES OF IDENTIFICATION -- Identification by Personal Effects -- Internal Examination -- Fingerprinting -- DNA Profiling -- Radiology -- Forensic Odontology -- The Approach to Dental Identification -- Dental Identification Details -- Additional Dental Features Potentially Useful in Identification -- Dental Repairs and Restorations -- Dental Extractions and Identification -- THE UNRECOGNIZABLE CADAVER -- Putrefaction and Identification -- IDENTIFICATION OF THE SKELETONIZED BODY -- Time of Death -- Cause of Death -- Skull Injuries Produced by Blunt Violence -- Bullet Injuries -- Knife Injuries -- Disarticulated Skeletonized Remains -- Mass Disasters and Commingled Remains -- Preparation of Specimens for the Anthropologist -- Missing Skeletal Parts -- General Identification Features -- Human or Animal -- Age -- Sex -- Stature -- Population Affinity/Ancestry/Race -- Personal Identity -- Probability of Identity -- Types of Potentially Identifying Bony Abnormalities -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 CLOCK AND CALENDAR -- INTRODUCTION -- THE IMPORTANCE OF TEMPORAL PHENOMENA IN HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION -- Infanticide -- Time of Death and Cause of Death -- Survival Interval -- Histologic Criteria of Survival Interval -- ESTIMATION OF THE TIME OF DEATH -- Rate and Concurrence Methods for Estimating Time of Death -- Rate Method -- Concurrence Method -- POSTMORTEM CHANGES AND THE POSTMORTEM INTERVAL -- Postmortem Body Cooling-Algor Mortis -- Factors Affecting the Rate of Postmortem Cooling -- Postmortem Cooling Formulae -- Body Temperature Determination -- Rigor Mortis and Cadaveric Spasm -- Chronology of Rigor Mortis -- Factors Affecting Development of Rigor Mortis -- Distribution of Rigor Mortis -- Degree of Rigor Mortis -- Examining for Rigor Mortis -- Cadaveric Spasm.
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Livor Mortis (Lividity) -- Chronology of Livor Mortis -- Differentiation of Lividity from Contusions -- Autolysis and Putrefaction -- Autolysis -- Putrefaction -- Postmortem Decomposition -- Sequence of Postmortem Decomposition Changes -- Factors Influencing the Rate of Postmortem Decomposition -- Mummification -- Adipocere Formation -- Skeletonization -- Cautions to be Observed -- Ocular Changes as Indicators of the Postmortem Interval -- Insect Infestation of the Cadaver -- Botanical Observations and the Time of Death -- Chemical, Nuclear, and Other Estimates of the Postmortem Interval -- ASSOCIATED EVIDENCE AS INDICIA OF THE POSTMORTEM INTERVAL -- Internal Associated Evidence -- External (Environmental) Asssociated Evidence -- CRITIQUE OF METHODS FOR ESTABLISHING THE TIME OF DEATH -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 FIREARMS -- The Anatomy of a Cartridge -- The Primer -- The Propellant -- Fouling and Burning of the Target -- Reconstruction of Muzzle-Target (Victim) Distance -- Target Fouling and Stippling ("Powder Burns") -- Muzzle Flame -- The Projectile -- WOUNDING CAPACITY OF BULLETS AND MECHANISMS OF GUNSHOT WOUND FORMATION -- Mechanics of Bullet Wound Production -- The Importance of Bullet Velocity -- Tissue Density -- Hydrostatic Forces -- The Falling Bullet -- Bullets and Bone -- Entrance and Exit Bullet Wound Dimensions -- Temporary and Permanent Cavity Formation -- THE PATHOLOGIST AND THE GUNSHOT FATALITY -- Questionnaire on Gunshot Fatalities -- Pre-Autopsy Procedures in Known or Suspected Gunshot Fatalities -- ENTRANCE GUNSHOT WOUNDS -- Details of Entrance Wounds -- A Caveat about Skin and Clothing Entrance Wounds -- Reporting the Locations of Entrance (and Exit) Wounds -- Bullet Grazes ("Slaps") -- Classification of Entrance Wounds -- Contact Wounds -- Close-Range Gunshot Wounds -- Intermediate Gunshot Wounds.
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Distant (or Indeterminate) Entrance Gunshot Wounds.
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