NCJ Number
55688
Editor(s)
J K MASON
Date Published
1978
Length
399 pages
Annotation
THIS BOOK DISCUSSES THE PATHOLOGY OF VIOLENCE AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY. IT PROVIDES A REFERENCE FOR A WIDE FIELD OF CLINICIANS AND HOSPITAL PATHOLOGISTS WHO HANDLE TRAUMATIC DEATH CASES.
Abstract
CONSISTING OF CHAPTERS WRITTEN BY AMERICAN AND BRITISH AUTHORS, THE TEXT RELATES PATHOLOGY OF VIOLENT INJURY TO THE PHILOSOPHY THAT VIOLENCE AND TRAUMA ARE PART OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE. BESIDES THE SEVERAL SELECTIONS WHICH DEAL WITH SUCH ISSUES AS THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF VIOLENCE, THE PREVENTION OF INJURY IN VEHICULAR ACCIDENTS, ROBBERY AND CIVIL DISTURBANCE AND VIOLENCE AND THE OFFSHORE SCENE AND ITS HAZARDS, THE BOOK IS ESSENTIALLY PRACTICAL IN FORMAT AND SHOULD BE OF VALUE TO LAWYERS, CORONERS, AND POLICE OFFICERS CONCERNED WITH INJURY AND UNNATURAL DEATHS. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED INCLUDE INJURIES AND DEATHS IN MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS; PEDESTRIAN INJURIES AND DEATHS; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; INJURIES OCCURRING DURING CIVIL DISTURBANCES; MODERN WAR WOUNDS; BURNING INJURIES; INJURIES SUSTAINED IN MINING AND QUARRYING; STABBING AND OTHER KNIFE WOUNDS; INJURIES RESULTING FROM SEXUAL VIOLENCE; FORMS OF ASPHYXIAL DEATH; BLUNT HEAD INJURIES; INJURY AND SUDDEN DEATH IN SPORT; INJURIES RESULTING FROM KICKING, KARATE, AND KUNG FU; HEMORRHAGE, COAGULATION, AND THROMBOSIS; RENAL FAILURE FOLLOWING INJURY AND BURNING; AND FAT AND BONE MARROW EMBOLISMS WHICH HAVE FORENSIC SIGNIFICANCE. AN INDEX, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND REFERENCES ARE INCLUDED. (DAG)