Interpreting Bone Lesions and Pathology for Forensic Practice

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

Interpreting Bone Lesions and Pathology for Forensic Practice presents a concise description of the necessary steps for the differential diagnosis of disease and trauma on skeletal remains. Information obtained from the pathological reactions of bone can be fundamental for forensic dilemmas, ranging from identification to understanding trauma. The book's authors aim to provide reliable tools for the appropriate interpretation of lesions on bone through macroscopic, radiological, histological and biomolecular analyses on skeletal remains.

Provides tools for the proper interpretation of bone pathology and lesions
Presents content that is based on modern and documented case studies
Includes bone pathological reactions that are crucial for interpreting trauma

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-11-18
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:480 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Elsevier Science
ISBN:9780323851626

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Lucie Biehler-Gomez, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow in bioarch- aeology and forensic anthropology at the Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology and Odontology (LABANOF), University of Milan, Italy. She obtained her BSc at the Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France) in 2014 finishing her degree with a year abroad at the University of California Davis, CA, United States, her MSc in 2016 at the Faculty of Medicine, Université de Lorraine Nancy, France and in 2020 her PhD at the Università degli studi di Milano (Italy). Her research emphasis is on the recognition and diagnosis of bone disease, in particular based on the modern and documented CAL Milano Cemetery Skeletal Collection of LABANOF. She wrote several chapters, published over 15 research articles in international journals and is currently a Reviewer for the journal Forensic Science International. In 2020, she was awarded the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowship (Italian edition). Cristina Cattaneo - forensic pathologist and anthropologist, is currently Full Professor of Legal Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy) and Director of LABANOF, Laboratorio di Antropologia e Odontologia Forense. She has been actively involved with the Italian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the creation of a national database for unidentified human remains and has since 2014 been the medico legal coordinator for the Governmental Office of the Commissioner for Missing Persons for the identification of dead migrants. She also coordinates the medico legal activities on victims of maltreatment, torture and on unaccompanied minors in Milano. She is a forensic pathology and anthropology expert for various courts in Italy and occasionally in Europe, President of FASE (Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe), member of the Swiss DVI (Disaster Victim Identification) team and Co Editor in Chief for the journal of Forensic Science International

Innehållsförteckning

1. The study of bone disease: principles and applications to forensicsLucie Biehler-Gomez and Cristina Cattaneo2. Bone homeostasis and mechanismsLucie Biehler-Gomez and Cristina Cattaneo3. Infectious diseases: non-specific and specific infectionsLucie Biehler-Gomez and Cristina Cattaneo4. Indicators of stress: metabolic and endocrine disordersLucie Biehler-Gomez and Cristina Cattaneo5. Diseases of jointsLucie Biehler-Gomez and Cristina Cattaneo6. Neoplastic diseasesLucie Biehler-Gomez, Cristina Cattaneo and Francesco. Sardanelli7. Calcified residues of soft tissue diseaseLucie Biehler-Gomez, Cristina Cattaneo and Emanuela Maderna8. TraumaAnnalisa Capella, debora. mazzarelli, Carmelo Messina and Cristina Cattaneo9. Biological profile and personal identificationDebora. Mazzarelli, Danilo De Angelis, Daniele Gibelli, Pasquale Poppa, Davide Porta, Lucie Biehler-Gomez and Cristina Cattaneo10. The challenge of taphonomic alterationsLucie Biehler-Gomez, Mirko Mattia and Cristina Cattaneo11. Toxicological analysis on bones, hair and mummified tissuesLucie Biehler-Gomez, Gaia Giordano, Domenico Di Candia and Cristina Cattaneo