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Wound Ballistics

Basics and Applications

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  • 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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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.

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“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

  • Centre of Forensic Physics and Ballistics, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland

    Beat P. Kneubuehl

  • Assistance Division, International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland

    Robin M. Coupland

  • Institute of Forensic Medicine, Medical Centre of the University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Markus A. Rothschild

  • Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Michael J. Thali

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

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