Burns: The Medical and Forensic Model PDF eBook

Editor: Alan D. Clark; Contributors: Laura Billon, John Brick, Raymond M. Fish, R. Tom Glass, Paul Anthony Janson, William R. Reynolds, Crystal R. Samborski, ISBN 10: 1-930056-59-1 ISBN 13: 978-1-930056-59-6 Copyright Date Ed:  January 31, 2006 Pages: 368 pages Binding Information: Casebound Size: 6 ✕ 9 Inches (US) The totality of burn injury – personal and economic – is enormous. From a neighborhood house fire to the collapse of the Twin Towers, burn injuries have continued to affect society especially burn victims and their families. For the medical, forensic and legal professions, burn care continues to be viewed by many as part science and part myth. The medical science of burn treatment and rehabilitation has progressed rapidly, dispelling many of the myths, and the legal issues have changed as well. This book provides a rapid, concise treatise on the ramifications of burn injury–from electrical injury to thermal and blast injury. Forensic considerations are presented