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Forensic Medicine of the Lower Extremity (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
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Forensic Medicine of the Lower Extremity (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
Series: Forensic Science and Medicine
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Publius Syrus stated back in 42 B.C., "You cannot put the same shoe
on every foot." (Maxim 596) Though written long before the advent
of forensic science, Syrus' maxim summarizes the theme of Forensic
Medicine of the Lower Extremity: Human Identification and Trauma
Analysis of the Thigh, Leg, and Foot. Put simply, the lower
extremity is a tremendously variable anatomic region. This
variation is beneficial to forensic experts. Differences in the leg
and foot can be used to establish individual identity. Analysis of
damage to the lower limb can be used to reconstruct antemortem,
perimortem, and postmortem trauma. As a forensic anthropologist, I
analyze cases involving decomposed, burned, m- mified, mutilated,
and skeletal remains. Many of the corpses I examine are incomplete.
Occasionally, I receive nothing but the legs and feet; a lower
torso dragged from a river; a foot recovered in a city park;
dismembered drug dealers in plastic bags; victims of bombings and
airline disasters; and the dead commingled in common graves. Though
the leg and foot contain much that is useful in forensic analysis,
before this publication, investigators faced a twofold problem.
Little research that focused on the lower extremity was available
in the literature, and the existing research was published in
diverse sources, making its location and synthesis a daunting task.
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