Age Estimation in the Living: The Practitioner's Guide - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470519673 ISBN 13: 9780470519677

Publisher: Wiley, 2010

Synopsis

This book summarizes and explains the main approaches to age estimation in the living, defining when a parameter may be of use and raising awareness of its limitations. This text ensures that practitioners recognize when an assessment is beyond their area of expertise or beyond verification depending upon the clinical data available. Each key approach to age evaluation has been allotted a single chapter, written by an international leader in the particular field. The book also includes summary chapters that relay readily accessible data for use by the practitioner, and includes important “ageing milestones.”

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About this title

From the Back Cover

Age Estimation in the Living: The Practitioner's Guide is the definitive guide to this topical subject and is written by leading experts in the field. The book provides the reader with key information on current protocols for age-estimation and the importance of the presentation of results and statistics for legal purposes.

Age Estimation in the Living: The Practitioner's Guide summarises and explains the main approaches to age estimation in the living. The limitations of these techniques are thoroughly examined, with the purpose of ensuring that practitioners recognise when an assessment is beyond their area of expertise or beyond verification depending upon the clinical data available. Each key approach to age estimation is dealt with in distinct chapter with summary chapters to relay key information for easy reference.

• Authoritative approach draws on the experience of a team of leading figures in the field
• Provides a truly comprehensive overview of available techniques
• Highlights the limits of age estimation in the living, allowing practitioners to accurately assess their own expertise
• Written in an engaging and stimulating manner and includes case studies which show the sometimes crucial role of age estimation in the living

About the Author

Professor Sue Black, OBE BSc PhD DSc FRSE, Head of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
Professor Sue Black is one of the worlds leading experts in Forensic Anthropology. She has received many accolades throughout her distinguished professional career including an OBE presented by Her Britannic Majesty for services to Forensic Anthropology in 2001. Professor Black developed the first undergraduate training course in forensic anthropology and the first postgraduate course in human identification in the UK. She is very well known to the media and has taken part in several television, radio and other media related programmes.

Professor Anil Aggrawal, Professor of Forensic Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India
Professor Aggrawal is also founder and Editor-in-Chief of Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology. The journal is in its 8th year of publication and draws more than 2000 visitors daily from all over the world.

Jason Payne-James, Forensic Healthcare Services Ltd, Essex, UK
Jason Payne James is a forensic physician appointed as a Forensic Medical Examiner to the Metropolitan Police Service and City of London Police. His work embraces four main areas drawing on his extensive medical, legal, forensic and education/writing expertise ― legal and clinical forensic aspects of medicine; clinical nutrition; gastroenterology. He is a prolific author/writer. Jason Payne James established a company, with others; Forensic Healthcare Services Ltd (www.forensic-healthcare.com) a company providing expert witnesses (www.experts4law.com) for the criminal and civil systems and other bodies, and which also provides training in these areas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0470519673
• ISBN 13: 9780470519677
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Black Sue, Aggrawal Anil, Payne-James Jason