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Pathology books by topic - Forensic pathology
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Adams:
Recovery, Analysis, and Identification of Commingled Human Remains
By Bradley J Adams and John E Byrd
2008 (1st ed), 310 pages, $129 list
Mass fatality events can result in
the intermixing, or commingling, of human remains. In this text, top
professionals illustrate successful techniques for sorting and determining the
number of individuals, the role of DNA, ethical considerations and data
management.
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Anderson: Forensic Sciences in Clinical Medicine: A Case Study Approach; 1998, 255 pages, $189. Presents pathology case studies that evaulate patterns of injury. Includes deceleration injuries; penetrating injuries; characteristics of sharp, blunt, compressive, projectile, and gunshot injuries; scene operations and prehospital considerations; multiple organ dysfunction; head, CNS and other trauma; child abuse, spousal abuse, sexual battery, and elder abuse; evidence management; and medicolegal implications.
Breeze: Microbial Forensics; May 2005, 448 pages, $130. Describes the new and growing field of Microbial Forensics-the science that will help bring to justice criminals and terrorists who use biological material to cause harm. This book describes the foundation of the field of microbial forensics and will serve as a basic primer to initiate those scientists and officials that have an interest in the topic.
Brinkmann: Progress in Forensic Genetics 9; 2003, 976 pages, $230. Contains the oral and poster presentations given at the 19th congress of the newly renamed ISFG International Society for Forensic in Munster, Germany from 28th August to 1st September 2001.
Buckleton: Forensic DNA Evidence Interpretation; December 2004, 534 pages, $130. Discusses interpretation of DNA profiles after they have been collected, stored, transferred, and analyzed. Includes the biological basis for DNA evidence; a framework for interpreting evidence; population genetic models; relatedness; validating databases; sampling effects; mixtures; low copy number; nonautosomal forensic markers; parentage testing; disaster victim identification, identification of missing persons, immigration cases; and DNA intelligence databases. more
Butler: Forensic DNA Typing : Biology, Technology, and Genetics behind STR Markers; February 2005 (2nd edition), 688 pages, $80. Includes the latest information on DNA typing systems, Y chromosome material and mitochondrial DMNA markers. New chapters cover statistical genetic analysis of DNA data, an emerging field of interest to DNA research.
Byard: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome; 2001, 353 pages, $79. Provides a comprehensive overview of the epidemiology, pathology, and physiology of SIDS. Emphasizes new theories of causation, new diagnostic approaches, recent changes in epidemiology, international protocols, and analyses of problems in diagnosis and approach. review
Carracedo: Forensic DNA Typing Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology); January 2005, 292 pages, $100. International forensic geneticists describe the steps involved in the laboratory methods they use for DNA identity analysis, including Y chromosome haplotyping, mtDNA, and SNP typing. Protocols are provided DNA quantification using real-time PCR on forensic samples and for the determination of the number of amelogenine gene copies.
Dart:
Medical Toxicology
By Richard C Dart
2003 (3rd ed), 2304 pages, 250 illus, $199 list
This thoroughly revised and updated Third Edition of the classic Medical Toxicology is the definitive reference on the management of poisoned patients. More than 300 well-organized chapters written by eminent authorities guide clinicians through the diagnosis and treatment of every poisoning or drug overdose.
DiMaio: Forensic Pathology; 2001 (2nd edition), 592 pages, $100. Presents an overview of medicolegal investigative systems. Completely updated, the book examines investigative techniques and procedures that lead to obtaining accurate conclusions of death by homicide, accident, or suicide. more
DiMaio: Handbook of Forensic Pathology
By Vincent J M DiMaio and Suzanna E Dana
2006 (2nd ed), 304 pages, $50 list
This second edition presents core principles in an outline format that allows for rapid assimilation to the topics. It features contributors who are among the nation's foremost authorities on gunshot wounds and forensic pathology. This text also includes numerous tables that allow for quick referencing of important information.
Dix: Asphyxia and Drowning: An Atlas; 2000, 120 pages, $45. Provides an overview of the types, mechanisms, and physical findings associated with deaths involving asphyxia. Serves as a basic framework for an extensive pictorial representation of findings associated with these types of deaths. more
Dix: Color Atlas Of Forensic Pathology; 1999, 192 pages, 780 illus., $240. Provides basic information that forensic pathologists and other investigators deal with daily, offering insight into different causes of death and injury and how manners of death are diagnosed. Demonstrates ways to determine time of death and decomposition, and causes such as blunt trauma, sudden natural death, firearm injuries, asphyxia, cutting and stabbing injuries, drug overdoses, electrical and thermal injuries, and pediatric pathology. more
Dix: Investigation of Road Traffic Fatalities: An Atlas; 2000, 128 pages, $45. Covers the issues that face medical examiners and coroners in determining the nature and extent of road traffic fatalities as well as the cause, manner, and circumstances of death. Covers everything from typical road traffic fatalities to injuries caused by safety/restraint devices and autopsy and toxicology testing. more
Dodd: Terminal Ballistics: A Text And Atlas Of Gunshot Wounds; June 2005, $180. Includes 430 color photographs of firearms, ammunition rounds, and gunshot injuries. Provides case studies related to homicides, mimicry of gunshot injury, and gunshot residue histopathology. Contains a useful glossary and list of key texts and suggested readings. more
Dolinak: Forensic Pathology : Principles and Practice; March 2005, 616 pages, 1800 illus., $220. A straight-forward text organized in a case-oriented format. It contains more than 1800 full-color autopsy photographs with concise text to adequately explain representative topics. The photographs are large, bold, and colorful and are meant to serve as visual examples of the diverse realm of pathological findings waiting to be found at autopsy.
Doutremepuich: Progress in Forensic Genetics 10; March 2004, 678 pages, $195. This volume contains mainly short three-page manuscripts of the oral and poster presentations at the 20th Annual ISFG Congress in September 2003. The manuscripts have been reviewed and edited to maintain the high quality of the series.
Drummer: The Forensic Pharmacology of Drugs of Abuse; 2001, 462 pages, $99. Reviews the five main classes of drugs of abuse that figure prominently in forensic work: alcohol; the benzodiazepines; the opoids including heroin; the stimulants including amphetamines and cocaine; and cannabis. Drawing upon clinical case histories it offers a definitive account of the pharmacological, pharmacokinetic and toxicological properties of the most common drugs of abuse that require expert evidence in court.
Edwards: Pathology Of Sudden Cardiac Death: An Illustrated Guide
By Brooks Edwards and Jesse Edwards
2005 (1st ed), 264 pages, 688 illus, $110 list
Pathology of Sudden Cardiac Death provides a comprehensive review of cardiovascular disorders. While sudden cardiac death could primarily be seen as an arrhythmogenic event, this actually represents the minority of cases. For the vast majority, there is an underlying anatomic disorder of the cardiovascular system responsible for the ultimate hemodynamic collapse known as sudden cardiac death. more
Gall: Color Guide:Forensic Medicine; 2003, 140 pages, $22. Pocket text provides a concise view of key areas in clinical forensic medicine. It covers approximately 60 essential topics, each presented in a convenient two-page spread. The left-hand page contains brief, clearly written text, while the right-hand page presents a wealth of relevant color photographs.
Haschek: Handbook of Toxicologic Pathology (2-Volume Set); 2001, 1706 pages, $546. Discusses the basics and practice of toxicologic pathology, nutritional toxicological pathology, heavy metals, organ-specific toxicologic pathology and other topics. review
Henssge: The Estimation of the Time Since Death in the Early Post Mortem Period; 2002 (2nd edition), 271 pages, $99. Covers the historical background, basic research, and the practical application and limitations of various techniques in casework. Features comprehensive collection of data, extensive references, numerous illustrations, and correlates basic science with experimentation.
James: Interpretation Of Bloodstain Evidence At Crime Scenes; May 2005, 542 pages, 500 illus, $130. The first bloodstain pattern book presenting dramatic full color images of bloodletting injuries, bloodstains, and crime scenes. Contains appendices with crime scene and laboratory check lists and biohazard safety precautions. Discloses court decisions relating to bloodstain pattern analysis and presumptive blood testing.
Karch: Karch's Pathology of Drug Abuse; 2001 (3rd edition), 568 pages, $100. Provides a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the pathology, toxicology, and pharmacology of commonly abused drugs. New topics include methamphetamine abuse, GHB, ketamine, and select herbal hallucinogens, the mechanism of sudden death in cocaine users and overdose in heroin abusers, toxicology and pathology of ephedrine, neurochemistry of excited delirium.
Leikin:
Poisoning and Toxicology Handbook
By Jerrold B Leikin and Frank P Paloucek
2007 (4th ed), 1384 pages, $130 list
A unique reference containing detailed reviews of more than 900 drugs and poisons, the Poisoning and Toxicology Handbook, Fourth Edition provides the latest information on medicinal, biological, herbal, and non-medicinal agents, and antidotes.
Levine:
Principles of Forensic Toxicology
By Barry Levine
2006 (2nd ed), 428 pages, $74 list
This updated edition of the classic, best-selling textbook -- including new chapters on methods validation, benzodiazepines, and GHB -- is ideal for the classroom and the reference shelf.
Mason: The Pathology of Trauma; 1998 (3rd edition), 624 pages, $225. A comprehensive reference text that approaches the forensic aspects of trauma from the conditions in which they arise, looking at the circumstances in which injuries occur, the types of injury sustained, and their avoidance / prevention. review #1, #2, #3
Oehmichen: Forensic Neuropathology and Neurology (Hardcover); September 2005, 660 pages, $399. Incorporating the most recent literature and state-of-the-art methods, this practical work and atlas covers the entire domain of neuropathology for forensic pathologists as well as for specialists in associated fields. Its concise, direct style provides the reader with succinct and easy-to-find answers to forensic, pathological, pathophysiological, biomechanical, and molecular biology problems. more
Ottaviani: Crib Death: Sudden Unexplained Death of Infants - The Pathologist's Viewpoint
By Giulia Ottaviani
2007 (1st ed), 146 pages, 64 illus, $80 list
Crib death (SIDS) is the most
frequent cause of death for infants during the first year, striking 1 out of
every 700-1,000. Scarce knowledge in the field of SIDS and its pathology has
led to a continued and growing concern with finding an explanation, with the
goal of being able to either predict or quickly diagnose the infant or term
fetus.
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Payne-James: Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine; July 2005, 2000 pages, $740. Brings together all appropriate aspects of forensic medicine and legal medicine. The individual articles are written in a clear and concise manner and are supplemented by diagrams, tables and full-color images.
Pollak:
Atlas of Forensic Medicine
By S Pollak and P Saukko
2003, $95 list
This CD-ROM atlas illustrates and gives good visual coverage of the various frequently encountered aspects of natural and violent deaths, to remind of the limitations and pitfalls in interpretation of the findings, as well as to demonstrate other more rarely seen cases and injuries of forensic importance in the living.
Preedy: Comprehensive Handbook of Alcohol Related Pathology; December 2004, 2192 pages, $360. This handbook is divided into three sections: Part I-General Aspects of Alcohol and Mechanisms of Disease, Part II-Damage and Disease, and Part III-Selective Methods Used in Alcohol Research. This title disseminates data about alcohol toxicology from the nucleus to the whole organ.
Rich: Forensic Medicine of the Lower Extremity
By Jeremy Rich, Dorothy E Dean and Robert H Powers
2005 (1st ed), 421 pages, $145 list
This book covers human identification, trauma analysis, and forensic biomechanics of the foot, ankle, tibia, and femur as frequently encountered in mass casualty incidents, human decomposition, and human rights abuse investigations.
Saukko: Knight's Forensic Pathology; April 2004 (3rd edition), 672 pages, $225. Covers all aspects of the medicolegal autopsy, including cause and time of death, interpretation of wounds.
Sheleg:
Autoerotic Asphyxiation
By Sergey Sheleg and Edwin Ehrlich
2006 (1st ed), 208 pages, $30 list
Of the various types of abnormal sexual behavior, the most dangerous and bizarre is autoerotic asphyxiation, also known as asphyxiophilia, sexual hanging, sexual asphyxia, scarfing, breath control play, and terminal sex. Though at least one autoerotic asphyxiation death occurs in the United States each day, it is almost unknown as a distinctive psychopathological entity in forensic medicine and psychology.
Shepherd: Simpson’s Forensic Medicine; 2003 (12th edition), 196 pages, $50. Deals with the interface between medicine and law, in terms of medical examination of both the living and the dead for criminal purposes. Discusses ethical issues as well as the basic concepts and principles.
Siegel: Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences (3-Volume Set with Online Version; 2000, 1600 pages, $995. The first resource to provide comprehensive coverage of the core theories, methods, techniques, and applications employed by forensic scientists. It covers a broad range of topics including medicolegal causes of death, crime scene investigation, DNA databanks and analysis, alcohol and drug analysis, fire investigation, psychological autopsies and ethics.
Shkrum: Forensic Pathology of Trauma: Common Problems for the Pathologist
By Michael J Shkrum and David A Ramsay
2006 (1st ed), 648 pages, $175 list
Forensic Pathology of Trauma provides practical advice to pathologists about the conduct and analysis of the forensic autopsy in a case of trauma. This volume reinforces the systematic manner in which the forensic pathologist must approach all medicolegal trauma death investigations in order to avoid common mistakes that may confuse accurate interpretation of a case or compromise a medicolegal investigation.
Telepchak: Forensic and Clinical Applications of Solid Phase Extraction; January 2004, 360 pages, $100. Provides cutting-edge solid phase extraction methods for use in forensic and clinical toxicology. reviews basic principles and detailed, in-depth explanations of how to apply solid phase extraction.
By John H Trestrail III
2007 (2nd ed), 181 pages, 47 illus, $40 list
In this revised and expanded edition, leading forensic scientist John Trestrail offers a pioneering survey of all that is known about the use of poison as a weapon in murder. Topics range from the use of poisons in history and literature to convicting the poisoner in court, and include a review of the different types of poisons, techniques for crime scene investigation, and the critical essentials of the forensic autopsy.
Tsokos: Forensic Pathology reviews (Volume 1); April 2004, 384 pages, $100. Reviews recent medical and legal advances, concentrating on common pathological entities encountered in daily forensic routine, with some material on pathological conditions rarely seen in the autopsy room. Explores new avenues for analyzing the pathology of burned bodies, traumatic brain injury, death by drug abuse, sudden infant death, and fatalities from kicking and trampling. Also procedures for giving expert testimony. more, review #1, #2
Tsokos: Forensic Pathology reviews (Volume 2); December 2004, 311 pages, $100. Cutting-edge accounts of special topics from various fields of forensic pathology and death scene investigation. The authors explore new avenues for analyzing the pathology of death from starvation (child neglect), head injuries inflicted by glass bottles, the clinical and pathological features of primary cerebral neoplasms, obesity as it is relevant to the forensic pathologist, and infant and early childhood asphyxial death. more
Tsokos: Forensic Pathology reviews (Volume 3); April 2005, 400 pages, $125. Collection of cutting-edge accounts of special topics from various fields of forensic pathology and death scene investigation. Includes bodies found in water, the forensic aspects of HIV1 infection of the central nervous system, deaths in a head-down position, forensic bitemark analysis, taphonomic changes in human bodies during the early postmortem interval, arrhythmogenic ventricular dysplasia that produces sudden death in young people, the postmortem diagnosis of death in anaphylaxis, and iatrogenic deaths. more
Tsokos: Forensic Pathology Reviews (Volume 4); January 2006, 300 pages, $100. The authors explore new avenues for analyzing the pathology of death from environmental conditions (lightning strike and elder abuse), homicides by sharp force, and death from natural causes (Marfan’s syndrome, asthma and peliosis of the liver).
Tsokos:
Forensic Pathology Reviews, Volume 5
By Michael Tsokos
2008 (1st ed), 305 pages, $100 list
Volume 5 piques the mind as leading forensic pathologists from the United States and around the world offer advanced insight into death caused environmental conditions, trauma, neuropathology, natural causes, and ballistics. The authors of this volume further their exploration as they impart research related to identification, serial murder, histopathology, and age estimation.
Wagner: Color Atlas of the Autopsy; 2003, 264 pages, 500 illus., $200. Uses images to tell how the forensic pathologist develops opinions of the cause and manner of death. Topics include purpose and philosophy; circumstantial and medical history; external examination; internal examination; organ and tissue removal; examining individual organs; examining the head, skull, brain, and spinal cord; microscopic examination; and the laboratory analysis of drugs, chemicals, and microorganisms. Also includes review questions. more
Wagner: Color Atlas Of The Autopsy On CD-ROM; June 2004, 500 illus., $200. Tells how the forensic pathologist develops opinions of the cause and manner of death. Includes purpose and philosophy; circumstantial and medical history; external examination; internal examination; organ and tissue removal; examining individual organs; examining the head, skull, brain, and spinal cord; microscopic examination; and the laboratory analysis of drugs, chemicals, and microorganisms. more
Wetli: An Atlas of Forensic Pathology; 1999, 296 pages, $150. A breakthrough guide to the forensic autopsy, providing clear, precise text with a wealth of images. It provides the most current information on unnatural deaths and forensic pathologic investigation. review
Whitwell: Forensic Neuropathology; November 2005, 256 pages, $158. Forensic neuropathology succeeds in combining the concerns of the forensic pathologist with those of the neuropathologist, addressing the overlapping problems which arise from the autopsy and subsequent legal proceedings. The editor has the unique experience of working jointly as a forensic pathologist and as a neuropathologist.
Wong:
Drugs Of Abuse: Body Fluid Testing
by Raphael C Wong and
Harley Y Tse
2005 (1st ed), 320 pages, $145 list
A comprehensive review of the science of drug testing in all its aspects, placing emphasis on technologies that use body fluids other than urine for determining the presence of drugs of abuse. The authors discuss the various body fluid specimens suitable for testing for illicit drugs-particularly saliva, sweat, and hair-describe the structural and manufacturing aspects of on-site testing devices based on lateral flow immunoassay, and detail the pitfalls of using these specimens. more
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