TY - BOOK AU - Okoye, Matthias I AU - Wecht, Cyril H TI - Forensic investigation of mass disasters SN - 9781933264417 U1 - 363.25 PY - 2007/// CY - US PB - Tucson, AZ : Lawyers & Judges Pub. Co. KW - Disasters. KW - Forensic sciences. KW - Emergency management N1 - Scene investigation: the role of law enforcementand forensic scientists in bioterrorism and mass disasters -- Mass casualty identification through DNA analysis: overview, problems, and pitfalls -- Identifying human remains using TrueAllele® technology -- Dental identifications in mass disaster investigations -- The role of the forensic pathologist in a mass disaster -- The role of the coroner/medical examiner after a mass disaster -- Medical examiners, coroners, and biological terrorism: a guidebook for surveillance and case management -- The role of funeral directors and mortuary personnel within the DMORT operations in mass disasters -- Forensic engineering in mass disasters:analysis, prevention, and mitigation -- Psychopathy, media and the psychology at the root of terrorism and mass disasters -- Current trends in forensic investigations of human rights abuse: human identification of mass graves -- The role of forensic anthropologists in mass disasters and the issues and challenges in the anthropological identification of mass disaster victims -- The application of forensic entomology to mass disasters -- Developing core competencies in disaster medicine -- Mass disaster litigation in the United States -- Recent air crashes in Nigeria: legal considerations -- Recent mass disasters in West Africa: the urgent need for training forensic experts in Africa -- Forensic toxicology in mass disasters: from specimen preservation to toxic truth -- Survival time and activity prior to death in fatal head trauma -- Survival time and activity prior to death in fatal trauma to the body and limbs -- Florida's disaster fatality management team -- Public health aspects and preventive measures ER -