Individual chapters explore the emerging role of imaging in the diagnosis of non-accidental injury and compare recent evidence contrasting sudden infant death and SIDS; the head and neck injury chapter carefully explores the 'shaken baby syndrome' and similar patterns of injury that have recently gained widespread media attention. Special emphasis is given to interview and assessment procedures...

In the history of the progress of forensic medicine, apart from the successes, false theories appeared to happen, many of which were discarded only after many years. Among them, the greatest importance was gained by the theory of status thymo-lymphaticus (said to explain the causes of sudden deaths of young people) and the theory of blood's fluidity as a symptom indicating asphyxia as the cause...

Skin lesions suspected to have been caused by a burning cigarette require thorough diagnostic evaluation as to the mode of infliction. Accidental cigarette burns must be differentiated from injuries due to self-infliction or maltreatment. The typical categories are presented on the basis of the literature and exemplary cases from the authors' own study material. An intentional infliction must b...

Individual chapters explore the emerging role of imaging in the diagnosis of non-accidental injury and compare recent evidence contrasting sudden infant death and SIDS; the head and neck injury chapter carefully explores the 'shaken baby syndrome' and similar patterns of injury that have recently gained widespread media attention. Special emphasis is given to interview and assessment procedures...

Forensic DNA Applications: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (2014; Edited by Dragan Primorac and Moses Schanfield. CRC Press, Taylor Francis Group. 23 Chapters, 621 pages) is intended for different types of audiences interested in forensic medicine. It could be both a textbook for forensic molecular biology students and a reference book for practitioners of forensic molecular biology. Moreover ...

Recordings from video surveillance systems are used as evidence from crime scenes. It would be useful to perform comparisons between disguised perpetrators and suspects based on their gait. We applied functional anatomical and biomechanical knowledge to analyze the gait of perpetrators, as recorded on surveillance video. Using a structured checklist, which addresses the single body segments dur...

PROFESSOR WOODBURNE'S textbook was first published in 1957, and it is now in its 5th edition; it has met with the approval of teachers and students in many parts of the world. The book gives a sensible, accurate, clear account of the structure of the human body, with functional and clinical relevance constantly in mind. It is designed, by a teacher of long experience, to be used as a companion ...

Individual chapters explore the emerging role of imaging in the diagnosis of non-accidental injury and compare recent evidence contrasting sudden infant death and SIDS; the head and neck injury chapter carefully explores the 'shaken baby syndrome' and similar patterns of injury that have recently gained widespread media attention. Special emphasis is given to interview and assessment procedures...

nova-Institut, Hürth, Germany, [email protected]; Leson & Associates, Berkeley, USA; University of Cologne, Germany; Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine and Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; University of Würzburg, Germany; Drug & Alcohol Services South Australia, Parkside, Australia; University of California, Los Angeles, USA; Ver...