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Working in the killing fields forensic science in Bosnia / Howard Ball.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lincoln : Potomac Books, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781612347356
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DR1313 .W675 2015
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Contents:
Subject: While the specifics of individual wars vary, they share a common epilogue: the task of finding and identifying the "disappeared." The Bosnian war of the early 1990s, which destroyed the sovereign state of Yugoslavia, is no exception. In Working in the Killing Fields, Howard Ball focuses on recent developments in the technology of forensic science and on the work of forensic professionals in Bosnia following that conflict. Ball balances the examination of complex features of new forensic technology with insights into the lives of the men and women from around the globe who are tasked with findi.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Epigraph""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: On the Bank of the River Drina, May 10, 2003""; ""Abbreviations""; ""1. The “Disappeared� in War and the Need to Find and Identify Them""; ""2. Balkan Nationalism, the Creation and the Collapse of Yugoslavia, and “Ethnic Cleansing�""; ""3. Finding, Exhuming, and Identifying the Human Remains in Bosnia""; ""4. The Forensic Scientists at Work in Bosnia�s “Killing Fields�""

""5. The Stark Realities Confronting the Searchers and the Survivors in Bosnia""""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""About Howard Ball""

While the specifics of individual wars vary, they share a common epilogue: the task of finding and identifying the "disappeared." The Bosnian war of the early 1990s, which destroyed the sovereign state of Yugoslavia, is no exception. In Working in the Killing Fields, Howard Ball focuses on recent developments in the technology of forensic science and on the work of forensic professionals in Bosnia following that conflict. Ball balances the examination of complex features of new forensic technology with insights into the lives of the men and women from around the globe who are tasked with findi.

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