Overview
- Interdisciplinary – the reference work for wound ballistics
- Fundamentals, specialized knowledge reference work
- The practice and application of wound ballistics in forensic medicine, surgery and in international conventions
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- Wound ballistics forensic medicine surgery
- gunshot wounds
- Wound ballistics expert opinion assessment
- soldiers military medical services
- Police Criminologists
- Wound Ballistics Diagnostics Simulation Methods
- Wound Ballistics Glossary German English French
- Ammunition Material Properties
- Shooting tables ballistic values
- fragments gas jets non-lethal projectiles
- simulants tissue bone blood vessels
- short weapons long weapons
- Wound ballistics CT MRI Surface scanning
- Virtopsy virtual autopsy
- Wound ballistics international agreements
- physics ammunition weapons
- gunshot wound trauma surgery
About this book
The definitive interdisciplinary reference work for wound ballistics
Basics
The book begins by providing the necessary basic knowledge about physics, ballistics and ammunition and weapons. Then it describes the behaviour of projectiles in humans and animals (the physics of gunshot injuries) and introduces the experimental simulation of gunshot wounds, including the materials suitable for this purpose.
Applications
These basic principles can be applied in forensic medicine and criminalistics. The gunshot wound provides some forensic traces and the experimental reconstruction helps to understand the dynamic crime process. The wounding potential of non-lethal weapons can be determined.
In emergency and war surgery, injuries caused by small arms bullets and fragments as well as by gas jets (of gas weapons) can be assessed.
International conventions could be freed from undefined terms (such as “unnecessary suffering”) with the help of physical quantities.
Reference work
Detailed tables as e. g. ballistic data of numerous cartridge types, also older ones, material properties, as well as many otherwise difficult to access data and a trilingual glossary of ballistic and technical terms in the languages German, English and French.
NEW
Wound Ballistics of European Police ammunition
References to recent research results
Partly coloured illustrations
Due to the increase in terrorist and criminal activities worldwide, it is not only members of the armed forces who are affected. Surgeons, forensic doctors, police officers and criminalists also need to know and be able to assess the specifics of gunshot wounds.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Beat P. Kneubuehl
Dr. sc. forens., MD h. c., M.Sc. in Mathematics
Director
bpk consultancy gmbh
CH Thun
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Wound Ballistics
Book Subtitle: Basics and Applications
Editors: Beat P. Kneubuehl
Translated by: Steve Rawcliffe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64855-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-64854-4Published: 12 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-64857-5Published: 13 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-64855-1Published: 11 August 2022
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXV, 516
Number of Illustrations: 56 illustrations in colour
Topics: Forensic Medicine, General Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Pathology, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general