Overview
- Interdisciplinary – THE reference work for wound ballistics
- Fundamentals, specialized knowledge reference work
- NEW: the latest diagnostic and simulation methods, plus the latest types of rounds
- The practice and application of wound ballistics in forensic medicine, surgery (esp. emergency and combat surgery) and in international conventions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
The definitive interdisciplinary reference work for wound ballistics
Fundamentals in Physics, arms and ammunition, ballistics
Simulating gunshot wounds: Virtopsy – a virtual autopsy method, combining CT, MRT and surface scanning and Materials that reproduce the interaction of soft tissue, bone and blood vessels with a bullet that penetrates the body.
Wound ballistics for Short-range and long-range weapons, fragments, such as those from bombs and hand grenades, gas jets from blanks, gas weapons, etc., “Non-lethal” weapons as used by the police, in military operations or in urban settings
Specialist knowledge and reference detailed tables: ballistic tables for typical ammunition, ballistic values for numerous types of ammunition, including older types, materials properties, plus additional, hard-to-find data. Most tables are in both metric and U.S. units., an extensive trilingual glossary of specialized terminology in German, English and French
NEW: the latest diagnostic / simulation methods and the latest types of ammunition
The practice and application of wound ballistics in: forensic medicine, surgery – especially emergency and war surgery and international conventions
Globalized conflict zones, terrorism and crime – these issues affect a wider circle than just the armed forces and medical services abroad. Police officers, surgeons, forensics specialists and criminalists also need to be familiar with ballistics and gunshot wounds and must be able to assess the complex factors involved.
The practice and application of wound ballistics in forensic medicine. surgery – especially emergency and war surgery and International conventions.
Globalized conflict zones, terrorism and crime – these issues affect a wider circle than just the armed forces and medical services abroad. Police officers, surgeons, forensics specialists and criminalists also need to be familiar with ballistics andgunshot wounds and must be able to assess the complex factors involved.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The book concentrates on the practical application of research results in wound ballistics to the fields of forensic medicine and surgery. … The clearly structured book is absolutely reader friendly; it includes 234 instructive illustrations and 156 tables, which are very helpful to understand the text. … This book can be recommended without any reservations to all scientifically active forensic specialists and criminalists.” (Stefan Pollak, International Journal of Legal Medicine, Vol. 126, 2012)
Authors, Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr in forens. sci. Beat P. Kneubühl, MD h. c.
M. in Mathematics
- Director of the Center for Forensic Physics / Ballistics at the University of Bern’s Institute for Forensic Medicine
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Wound Ballistics
Book Subtitle: Basics and Applications
Authors: Robin M. Coupland, Markus A. Rothschild, Michael J. Thali
Editors: Beat P. Kneubuehl
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20356-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43589-8Published: 11 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-20356-5Published: 14 June 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 496
Topics: Forensic Medicine, Traumatic Surgery, Emergency Medicine