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  title info:
    title: Disaster victim identification in the 21st century
    sub title: a US perspective
  name:
    name part: Williams, John A.
    name part: (Physical anthropologist)
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Weedn, Victor Walter
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: John Wiley & Sons
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxiii, 380 pages) : illustrations (some color).
  abstract: "Mass fatality disasters, both natural and man-made are increasing in frequency. Extreme environmental disruptions like hurricanes, wildfires, and flooding are on the rise and in the news almost daily. Mass casualty terrorism is sadly also becoming more commonplace. In spite of improvements in technology common carrier crashes continue to take place. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that 21st century medicine can be outmatched by a "novel" virus that does not respect national boundaries. The deaths that result from these events place a different set of needs and obligations on those charged with disaster victim identification or DVI. In the United States during the 1980s the National Funeral Directors Association noticed with concern that there was no national coordinating body with regard to mass fatality events and DVI. The NFDA was the first organization to draw up plans for the handling of mass fatality victims. From their initial efforts came the Federal agency DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team) and the concept of a disaster morgue, marking the beginning of DVI in the United States as it is known today. Disaster Victim Identification is the comprehensive process of human identification as applied to mass fatality events. Although by definition a mass fatality event is any situation that overwhelms local resources, we generally think of situations in which identification is hampered by the event itself and the process of recovery from the event. Human remains that have been badly traumatized, heavily decomposed, or recovered outside of their normal context are examples that would require DVI"--
  table of contents: Introduction / John Williams and Victor Weedn -- Historical Background / Victor Weedn -- Quality Assurance in Disaster Victim Identification: The Case for Standards / Jason Wiersema and Michal Pierce -- Medicolegal Jurisdiction and Public and Private Agencies / John Williams and Jason Wiersema -- The DVI Morgue / John Williams -- Dentition and DVI / Kenneth Aschheim -- Fingerprints and DVI / Bryan Johnson -- DNA and Technology: The Future of DVI / Mark Wadhams and Taylor Dickerson -- The Victim Information Center and Data Collection: its Evolving Role in DVI / Jason Byrd -- Ethical and Legal Considerations in DVI / Victor Weedn -- DVI in the Changing 21st Century / Cynthia Gavin.
  note: edited by John A Williams, Victor W Weedn.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Disaster victims
    topic: Identification
  subject:
    topic: Dead
    topic: Identification
  subject:
    topic: Disaster Victims
  classification: RA1055 .D53 2022
  classification: 363.34/8
  classification: W 750
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Disaster victim identification in the 21st century
    origin info:
      publisher: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2022
    identifier: (DLC) 2021061393
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    title info:
      title: Forensic science in focus
  identifier: 9781119652823
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  identifier: 9781119652793
  identifier: 1119652790
  identifier: 9781119652786
  identifier: 2021061394
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220228
    record change date: 20260214204145.9
    record identifier: in00004687235
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng