Forensic Sciences in Clinical Medicine

Book excerpt: Shows you how the body reacts to traumatic events...so injuries can be better identified, assessed, and treated! In this brand-new book, Dr. William Anderson looks at injury patterns resulting from physical, chemical, and environmental agents. His easy-to-follow discussions help you to: - Recognise the unique and reproducible characteristics of different pathologic changes - Describe the effect of trauma on the human body using methods such as gross observation...histologic interpretation...and biochemical, toxicological, and microbiological analysis - Grasp the connection between the magnitude of the traumatic force and the degree of the injury - Apply pathologic data to the clinical evaluation and treatment of the patient Understand the surgical pathology of trauma - Properly handle and document forensic evidence, including bullets, fibers, and clothing. Plus ...more than 700 illustrations--including 325 in full colour --give you a true-to-life view of the pathology of trauma. This ground-breaking resource will be an essential guide for anyone interested in injury patterns.