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01-09-2008 | Book Review

Erin H. Kimmerle, José Pablo Baraybar, Skeletal Trauma: Identification of Injuries Resulting from Human Rights Abuse and Armed Conflict

CRC Press, 2008, 493 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8493-9269-6

Author: Jennifer C. Love

Published in: Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology | Issue 3/2008

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The volume Skeletal Trauma: Identification of Injuries Resulting from Human Rights Abuse and Armed Conflict is a well-referenced, well-organized text that takes a detailed look at skeletal trauma resulting from large-scale human rights violation and armed conflicts. The book is an excellent pictorial guide illustrating each type of trauma encountered in skeletal analysis and demonstrating a systematic method to adequately document and interpret skeletal trauma. The authors advocate an epidemiological approach that enables the anthropologist to expand from a myopic analysis of a single individual to a population-level perspective, and to differentiate between populations killed in armed combat versus those who are victims of mass murder. …

Title: Erin H. Kimmerle, José Pablo Baraybar, Skeletal Trauma: Identification of Injuries Resulting from Human Rights Abuse and Armed Conflict
CRC Press, 2008, 493 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8493-9269-6
Author: Jennifer C. Love
Publication date: 01-09-2008
Publisher: Humana Press Inc
Published in: Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology / Issue 3/2008
Print ISSN: 1547-769X
Electronic ISSN: 1556-2891
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-008-9048-6

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Erin H. Kimmerle, José Pablo Baraybar, Skeletal Trauma: Identification of Injuries Resulting from Human Rights Abuse and Armed Conflict

CRC Press, 2008, 493 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8493-9269-6

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