TY - BOOK AU - Ball,Howard TI - Working in the killing fields: forensic science in Bosnia SN - 9781612347356 AV - DR1313 .W675 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Lincoln PB - Potomac Books KW - Forensic sciences KW - Bosnia and Herzegovina KW - Disappeared persons KW - Dead KW - Identification KW - Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 KW - Genocide KW - Yugoslav war, 1991-1995 KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; ""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""; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=961846&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -