An Atlas of Skeletal Trauma in Medico-Legal Contexts

An Atlas of Skeletal Trauma in Medico-legal Contexts provides the reader with de-identified cases from the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine where the cause of death and mechanism of trauma are recorded to compile a comprehensive descriptive and visual representation of adult and child skeletal trauma. The book presents a range of adult and child skeletal trauma cases that occur in medico-legal contexts and includes high quality and comprehensive photographs and computed tomography (CT) images as well as descriptive text. The increasing use of routine post-mortem CT scans in forensic pathology practice in many jurisdictions has expanded the capacity to evaluate skeletal trauma making this book a worthy entry on the topic.

• Presents a valuable guide to the interpretation of skeletal trauma for practitioners and students of forensic anthropology, pathology and radiology
• Provides coverage of skeletal trauma cases resulting from high and low velocity projectiles, low energy blunt force (e.g., assaults involving various implements, hangings, strangulations, falls), high energy blunt force (e.g., motor vehicle and aviation incidents), and more
• Includes case studies with written and visual descriptions, discussions and up-to-date literature review

Forensic anthropologists and forensic pathologists in current medico-legal practice. Secondarily for schools of medicine, forensic and biological anthropology

Introduction
Chapter 1: High Velocity Projectile Trauma
Chapter 2: Low Energy Blunt Force Trauma
Chapter 3: Low Energy Blunt Force Trauma – Fatal Falls (Samantha Rowbotham)
Chapter 4: High Energy Blunt Force Trauma: Motor Vehicle Incidents
Chapter 5: High Energy Blunt Force Trauma: Aviation Incidents
Chapter 6: Accidental and Non-accidental Injuries in Children
Chapter 7: Sharp Force Trauma
Chapter 9: Taphonomic Changes
Chapter 10: Skeletal Variation: Morphology, Anomalies, Tissue Calcification and Pathology