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  title info:
    title: Guide to forensic pathology
  title info:
    title: Forensic pathology
  name:
    name part: Dix, Jay.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Calaluce, Robert.
  name:
    name part: Ernst, Mary Fran.
  name:
    name part: Taylor & Francis
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: flu
    place:
      place term: Boca Raton
    publisher: CRC Press
    date issued: c1999
    date issued: 1999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (v, 257 p. : ill.)
  abstract: Guide to Forensic Pathology provides a concise overview of forensic pathology to those who wish to know the basics but lack formal forensic training. Both fascinating and practical, this book explains everything from who the experts are in death investigation and what their roles are to how effective testimonies are presented in court. The importance of forensic DNA testing is emphasized with a separate section in this timely reference guide.
  table of contents: Preface -- Part 1: Intorduction -- History -- Experts encountered in death investigation -- Investigation and autopsy -- Guidelines for the death scene investigator / Mary Fran Ernst -- Part 2: Forensic pathology -- Cause, manner, and mechanism of death -- Time of death, decomposition, and identification -- Sudden natural death -- Firearms -- Cutting and stabbing -- Drugs and alcohol -- Asphyxia and drowning -- Electrical and thermal and exposure to extreme temperatures -- Blunt trauma: general and motor vehicle-pedestrian -- Blunt head trauma -- Pediatric forensic pathology -- Part 3: Forensic DNA testing -- Introduction -- DNA structure -- Technical considerations -- Statistical basis for interpretation -- Concluding remarks -- Part 4: Commonly asked questions -- Part 5: Cases -- Part 6: Helpful hints in testifying -- Appendix A: Photographs -- Appendix B: Medical terminology.
  note: Jay Dix, Robert Calaluce ; with contributions by Mary Fran Ernst.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Forensic pathology
  subject:
    topic: DNA
    topic: analysis
  subject:
    topic: Forensic Medicine
    topic: methods
  subject:
    topic: Pathology
  subject:
    topic: Forensic Pathology
  subject:
    topic: Pathologie médico-légale
  subject:
    topic: LAW / Forensic Science
  subject:
    topic: MEDICAL / Pathology
  subject:
    topic: Forensic pathology
  classification: RA1063 .D57 1999
  classification: 614/.1
  classification: W 700 D619g 1998a
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 99021246
  identifier: 9780203719640 (electronic bk)
  identifier: 0203719646 (electronic bk)
  identifier: 9781351443661
  identifier: 1351443666
  identifier: 9781351443654
  identifier: 1351443658
  identifier: 9781351443647
  identifier: 135144364X
  identifier: 0849302676
  identifier: 9780203719640 Taylor & Francis
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 190323
    record change date: 20241106181704.7
    record identifier: in00005517923
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng