When You Destroy a Blade of Grass

✍ Scribed by Brian Caddy

• Book ID: 104119260
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 265 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-7368
• DOI: 10.1016/s0015-7368(79)71285-0

✦ Synopsis

This thorough volume on identification in forensic medicine is the product of thirteen mainly academic writers under the editorship of Professors Hunger of Erfurt and Leopold of Leipzig. The text is in German and is illustrated partly by line drawings and partly by photographic plates. There are many statistical tables. There is much emphasis upon the ageing, sexing and identification of bone, bone fragments and skeletal material and an interesting discussion of the techniques of' sxperimposition of photographs of a deceased person upon the skull, and a similar process involving X-rays. Forensic odontology is well represented and there is discussion of bite marks and bite mechanisms. The final section of the book deals with the problems associated with civil catastrophe, the organisation of the investigation of such mass disasters as aircraft crashes and the documentation required to record what is discovered on the site. There is a full collection of about 1,300 references to the literature which understandably tends to be centred on continental sources though it is not by any means restricted to these.

For those with an ability to read German this is obviously a careful, painstaking and almost encyclopaedic work. The standard of production and printing remains high as is customary with all that issues from the Springer press. The book is cloth covered and a pleasure to handle.