Instructor: Dr. Michael Warren
Friday, 11:45am - 2:45pm
B-304 Turlington Hall

Week 1: Trauma as a process; shock; exploring mechanisms.

Maples WR. Trauma analysis by the forensic anthropologist. In Reichs KJ (ed.) Forensic Osteology: Advances in the Identification of Human Remains. Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, pp. 218-228.

Gurdjian MD, Webster JE, Lissner HR. The mechanism of skull fracture. Radiology 1950;54(3):313-338.

Harvey FH, Jones AM. 1980. Typical basal skull fracture of both petrous bones: An unreliable indicator of head impact site. Journal of Forensic Sciences 25(2):280-286.

Week 2: Fractures; classification systems and named fractures.

Salter RB, Harris WR. 1963. Injuries involving the epiphyseal plate.  J Bone Jt Surg 45A(3):587-622.

Week 3: Blunt trauma; mechanism

Francisco JT. Blunt trauma: General. In, Fisher RS and Petty CS (eds.) Forensic Pathology: A Handbook for Pathologists. National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. U.S Department of Justice, pp. 160-163.

Baden MM, Petty CS. Blunt trauma: Specific injuries. In, Fisher RS and Petty CS (eds.) Forensic Pathology: A Handbook for Pathologists. National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. U.S Department of Justice, pp. 164-167.

Week 4: Patterned injuries

Clark EGI, Sperry KL. 1992. Distinctive blunt force injuries caused by a crescent wrench. Journal of Forensic Sciences 37(4):1172-1178.

Week 5: Sharpforce injuries

Stahl CJ. Cutting and stabbing wounds. In, Fisher RS and Petty CS (eds.) Forensic Pathology: A Handbook for Pathologists. National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. U.S Department of Justice, pp. 151-159.

Frayer DW, Bridgens JG. 1985. Stab wounds and personal identity determined from skeletal remains: A case from Kansas. Journal of Forensic Sciences 30(1):232-238.

Week 6: Dismemberment; saw mark exemplars

Week 7: Gunshot wounds; terminal ballistics

Smith OC, Symes SA, Berryman HE, LeVaughn MA. 1991. Matching bullets to bone impact signatures. Journal of Forensic Sciences 36(6):1736-1739.

Quatrehomme G, Iscan MY. 1999. Characteristics of gunshot wounds in the skull. Journal of Forensic Sciences 44(3):568-76.

Dixon DS. 1982. Keyhole lesions in gunshot wounds of the skull and direction of fire. Journal of Forensic Sciences 27:555-566.

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Week 9: Patterns of abuse in children and the elderly - Part I.

Kerley ER. 1977. The identification of battered infant skeletons. Journal of Forensic Sciences 23(1):163-168.

Schwend RM, Werth C, Johnston A.  2000.  Femur shaft fractures in toddlers and young children: rarely from child abuse. Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics 20:475-481.

Shaw BA, Murphy KM, Shaw A, Oppenheim WL, Myracle MR.  1997.  Humerus shaft fractures in young children:  accident or abuse?  Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics 17:293-297.

Walker PL, Cook DC, Lambert PM.  1997.  Skeletal evidence for child abuse:  a physical anthropological perspective. Journal of Forensic Sciences 42(2):196-207.

Week 10: Patterns of abuse in children and the elderly - Part II.

Thomas SA, Rosenfield NS, Leventhal JM, Markowitz RI.  1991.  Long-bone fracture in young children: Distinguishing accidental injuries from child abuse.  Pediatrics 88(3):471-476.

O’Neill JA Jr, Meacham WF, Griffin PD, Sawyers JL.  1973.  Patterns of injury in the battered child syndrome.  Journal of Trauma 13(4):332-339.

Merton DF, Radkowski MA, Leonidas JC.  1983.  The abused child:  a radiological reappraisal.  Radiology 146:377-381.

Week 11: Trauma in Prehistory

Kilgore L, Jurmain R, Van Gerven D.  1997.  Palaeoepidemiological patterns of trauma in a medieval Nubian skeletal population.  International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 7:103-114.

Lovejoy CO, Heiple KG.  1981.  The analysis of fractures in skeletal populations with an example from the Libben site, Ottowa County, Ohio.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 55:529-541.

Week 12:

Scherer M, Sullivan WG, Smith DJ Jr., Phillips LG, Robson MC. 1989. An analysis of 1,423 facial fractures in 788 patients at an urban trauma center. Journal of Trauma 29(3):388-90.

Week 13: Overview; Papers due.