The AIDS Epidemic : Social Dimensions Of An Infectious Disease
ISBN: 9780813320458 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive introduction to the problem of AIDS lays out the medical facts and social epidemiology of the disease and illuminates the complex social problems this disease poses for the United States and other nations. Each chapter introduces a key sociological approach that clarifies how social scientists understand and explain important social dimensions of the AIDS epidemic. The authors use of historical comparisons with other deadly epidemics sets in relief the social problems presented by AIDS today. AIDS has become the most vexing medical crisis of our time. But the social aspects...
This comprehensive introduction to the problem of AIDS lays out the medical facts and social epidemiology of the disease and illuminates the complex s...
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259,30 zł |
Emergency Responder Injuries and Fatalities: An Analysis of Surveillance Data
ISBN: 9780833035653 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Summarizing the results of an analysis of available data sources concerning the hazards facing firefighters, police, and emergency medical responders, this title collects and synthesizes available data on casualties experienced by the emergency responder population.
Summarizing the results of an analysis of available data sources concerning the hazards facing firefighters, police, and emergency medical responders,...
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109,28 zł |
Medicolegal Neuropathology: A Color Atlas
ISBN: 9780849313615 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Medicolegal Neuropathology: A Color Atlas uniquely demonstrates and explains many neuropathologic findings in a way that will aid investigators of sudden and unexpected death integrate their own findings into the total case context. With helpful tips and reminders, as well as over 500 bold, colorful photographs, this well-organized resource helps you quickly recognize, document, and understand the diverse realm of neuropathological findings waiting to be discovered at autopsy.
Organized in a case-oriented format, Medicolegal Neuropathology: A Color Atlas shows you: Medicolegal Neuropathology: A Color Atlas uniquely demonstrates and explains many neuropathologic findings in a way that will aid investigators of sud...
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1556,10 zł |
A Radiologic Atlas of Abuse, Torture, Terrorism, and Inflicted Trauma
ISBN: 9780849315336 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The results of aggression against humans can be hideously obvious, but may also be entirely concealed from casual inspection. Often, only exploration of the hidden recesses of the mind via psychiatric evaluation, or radiologic exploration of the inner recesses of the body can reveal the evidence of such violence. This book focuses on the latter.
A Radiologic Atlas of Abuse, Torture, Terrorism, and Inflicted Trauma combines the lifetime experience of two distinguished radiologists and a renowned odontologist to provide an unprecedented collection of radiographs depicting the results of... The results of aggression against humans can be hideously obvious, but may also be entirely concealed from casual inspection. Often, only exploration ...
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1244,88 zł |
Time of Death, Decomposition and Identification: An Atlas
ISBN: 9780849323676 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A postmortem X-ray of a male homicide victim reveals a bullet lodged next to his spine. That he was shot is clear. How recently? is what death investigators must determine. The answer: the absence of scar tissue surrounding the bullet proves the victim had been recently shot. And while the average person may find tattoos to be creative and aesthetic, to the trained death investigator, they can actually be the key to aiding in the eventual identification of a body. They say the dead can't speak. But in the fascinating field of forensic pathology, the deceased can tell an elaborate...
A postmortem X-ray of a male homicide victim reveals a bullet lodged next to his spine. That he was shot is clear. How recently? is what death investi...
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451,22 zł |
Investigation of Road Traffic Fatalities
ISBN: 9780849323683 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The screech of rubber against asphalt. And then the crash: a violent two-car collision resulting in a twisted mass of metal, plastic, and glass-and worse, the deaths of both drivers.
Accident reconstruction is but one phase of road traffic fatality (RTF) cases. Even as police officers draw their last diagram, interview their last witness, and reconstruct their final scenario, a different team of investigators works diligently on solving another puzzle: determining how the victims actually died. Investigation of Road Traffic Fatalities: An Atlas covers the issues that face medical... The screech of rubber against asphalt. And then the crash: a violent two-car collision resulting in a twisted mass of metal, plastic, and glass-and wo...
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373,41 zł |
Asphyxia and Drowning : An Atlas
ISBN: 9780849323690 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This third volume in the Forensic Pathology Atlases: Causes of Death Series provides an overview of the types, mechanisms, and physical findings associated with deaths involving asphyxia. Asphyxia and Drowning serves as a basic framework for an extensive pictorial representation of findings associated with these types of deaths. It helps the reader to gain a better understanding of the processes leading to asphyxiation, to recognize the associated physical findings, and better appreciate the difficulties in evaluating asphyxiation deaths.
This third volume in the Forensic Pathology Atlases: Causes of Death Series provides an overview of the types, mechanisms, and physical findings assoc...
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414,91 zł |
Forensic Nursing
ISBN: 9780849335402 / Angielski / Twarda / 664 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by an award-winning investigative journalist with more than twenty years of experience, Forensic Nursing takes an objective yet engaging look at a profession that according to the author, "is only for those with a strong stomach, a pure heart, and a quick mind." It presents the personal experiences and perspectives of forensic nurses that work in all areas of forensic and critical care/emergency practice.
The book explores the many medico-legal issues that a forensic nurse will encounter during the course of a career. It details the pertinent medico-legal skill sets that every... Written by an award-winning investigative journalist with more than twenty years of experience, Forensic Nursing takes an objective yet engaging look ...
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1011,47 zł |
Terminal Ballistics : A Text and Atlas of Gunshot Wounds
ISBN: 9780849335778 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive guide explains the science of forensic ballistics, focusing on the hardware, injury patterns, and forensic techniques associated with gunshot wounds. This extensive resource spans from firearm designs to crime scene investigation and forensic photography to autopsy reports and the mechanics of injuries.
This comprehensive guide explains the science of forensic ballistics, focusing on the hardware, injury patterns, and forensic techniques associated wi...
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1296,75 zł |
Pathology of the Heart and Sudden Death in Forensic Medicine
ISBN: 9780849370489 / Angielski / Twarda / 519 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pathology of the Heart and Sudden Death in Forensic Investigations discusses the pathology of the cardiovascular system from the forensic perspective. This book contains basic functional anatomy of the heart, combining views on examination from clinical and pathologic perspectives. It systematically treats patho-physiologic changes and specific heart diseases and explains the benefits of communication between forensic specialists and clinicians in determining cause of death. It also presents recent findings on pediatric pathology. Including 150 color photographs that show forensic aspects of...
Pathology of the Heart and Sudden Death in Forensic Investigations discusses the pathology of the cardiovascular system from the forensic perspective....
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1011,47 zł |
Atlas of Human Hair : Microscopic Characteristics
ISBN: 9780849381348 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Atlas of Human Hair Microscopic Characteristics fills a void in th e resources available to researchers and practitioners in forensic hai r examination by providing photographic archetypes for the microscopic characteristics of human hair and the variates of the characteristics seen in forensic examinations, including curl; color; pigment distrib ution and density; cortical fusi; and ovoid bodies. These illustration s provide a uniform basis for describing the characterisics and their variations for forensic professionals in differing geographical areas. The documentation of hair...
The Atlas of Human Hair Microscopic Characteristics fills a void in th e resources available to researchers and practitioners in forensic hai r examin...
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803,99 zł |
Forensic Taphonomy: The Postmortem Fate of Human Remains
ISBN: 9780849394348 / Angielski / Twarda / 668 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Links have recently been established between the study of death assemblages by archaeologists and paleontologists (taphonomy) and the application of physical anthropology concepts to the medicolegal investigation of death (forensic anthropology). Forensic Taphonomy explains these links in a broad-based, multidisciplinary volume. It applies taphonomic models in modern forensic contexts and uses forensic cases to extend taphonomic theories. Review articles, case reports, and chapters on methodology round out this book's unique approach to forensic science.
Links have recently been established between the study of death assemblages by archaeologists and paleontologists (taphonomy) and the application of p...
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803,99 zł |
Forensic DNA Profiling Protocols
ISBN: 9780896034433 / Angielski / Twarda / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is now more than ten years since Dr. Alec Jeffreys (now Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, FRS) reported in Nature that the investigation of certain minisatellite regions in the human genome could produce what he termed DNA fingerprints and provide useful information in the fields of paternity testing and forensic analysis. Since that time we have witnessed a revolution in the field of forensic identification. A total change of technology, from serological or electrophoretic analysis of protein polymorphisms to direct investigation of the underlying DNA polymorphisms has occurred in a short...
It is now more than ten years since Dr. Alec Jeffreys (now Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, FRS) reported in Nature that the investigation of certain mini...
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382,84 zł |
Forensic and Clinical Applications of Solid Phase Extraction
ISBN: 9780896036482 / Angielski / Twarda / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This complete laboratory reference manual explains the principles behind solid phase extraction (SPE) and provides readily reproducible protocols for solving extraction problems in forensic and clinical chemistry. Numerous actual chromatograms, based on original research and diverse applications, demonstrate the technique and the results that can be achieved. Extensive appendices allow fast access to frequently needed information on reagents, the preparation of solutions and buffers, milliequivalent and millimode calculations, buffers and pKa for SPE, and a complete RapidTrace(r) technical...
This complete laboratory reference manual explains the principles behind solid phase extraction (SPE) and provides readily reproducible protocols for ...
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765,72 zł |
On-Site Drug Testing
ISBN: 9780896038707 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is at least a decade since scientists turned their imaginations to creating new compact, portable test instruments and self-contained test kits that could be used to analyze urine and saliva for alcohol, drugs, and their metabolites. Although the potential applications for such tests at the site of specimen collection, now called on-site or point-of-care testing, range far beyond hospital emergency rooms and law enforcement needs, it was catalyzed by the requirements of workplace drug testing and other drugs-of-abuse testing programs. These programs are now a minor national industry in the...
It is at least a decade since scientists turned their imaginations to creating new compact, portable test instruments and self-contained test kits tha...
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650,86 zł |
The Heart of the Future/The Future of the Heart Volume 1: Scenario Report 1986 Volume 2: Background and Approach 1986: Scenarios on Cardiovascular Dis
ISBN: 9780898388688 / Angielski / Miękka / 109 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Heart of the Future/The Future of the Heart Volume 1: Scenario Report 1986 Volume 2: Background and Approach 1986: Scenarios on Cardiovascular Dis
ISBN: 9780898388770 / Angielski / Twarda / 109 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Biostatistical Applications in Cancer Research
ISBN: 9781402072260 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Biostatistics is defined as much by its application as it is by theory. This book provides an introduction to biostatistical applications in modern cancer research that is both accessible and valuable to the cancer biostatistician or to the cancer researcher, learning biostatistics. The topical areas include active areas of the application of biostatistics to modern cancer research: survival analysis, screening, diagnostics, spatial analysis and the analysis of microarray data.
Biostatistics is an essential component of basic and clinical cancer research. The text, authored by... Biostatistics is defined as much by its application as it is by theory. This book provides an introduction to biostatistical applications in modern ca...
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765,72 zł |
Forensic Epidemiology
ISBN: 9781420063271 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After 9/11, forensic epidemiology emerged as a leading investigative tool, partnering public health officers with law enforcement like never before. Based on the authors first-hand experience, Forensic Epidemiology brings to light the vast amounts of information collected by medical examiners that will be useful in advancing death investigation techniques among the forensic science, public health, and law enforcement fields. This practical resource begins with a brief overview of epidemiological science and the history of forensic epidemiology before... After 9/11, forensic epidemiology emerged as a leading investigative tool, partnering public health officers with law enforcement like never before... |
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803,99 zł |
Dental Autopsy
ISBN: 9781420070132 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The most advanced and complete forensic dentistry resource of its kind, this volume provides essential guidance in all areas of forensics odontologly. It supplies medical examiners and forensic investigators with the detailed information needed to perform their work with the highest level of authority in the dental autopsy lab, the field, and the courtroom.
The most advanced and complete forensic dentistry resource of its kind, this volume provides essential guidance in all areas of forensics odontolog... |
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829,92 zł |