FORENSIC EPIDEMIOLOGY. PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE

• Part I. Principles of Forensic Epidemiology
Chapter 1. Legal Considerations of Forensic Applications of Epidemiology in the United States
Chapter 2. Epidemiologic Evidence in Toxic Torts
Chapter 3. Methods Used in Forensic Epidemiologic Analysis
Chapter 4. Causation in Epidemiology and Law
Chapter 5. The Role of the Expert Witness
• Part II. Auxiliary Forensic Disciplines
Chapter 6. Forensic Pathology
Chapter 7. Death Investigation
Chapter 8. Injury Biomechanics
Chapter 9. Biomechanical, Epidemiologic, and Forensic Considerations of Pediatric Head Injuries
Chapter 10. Survival Analysis
• Part III. Applications of Forensic Epidemiology
Chapter 11. Traffic Injury Investigation
Chapter 12. Traffic Injury Investigation: Product Defects
Chapter 13. Product Defect/Liability Investigation
Chapter 14. Medical Negligence Investigation
Chapter 15. Criminal Investigation
• Glossary
• Author Index
• Subject Index

Forensic epidemiology addresses the intersection of epidemiology and law. A unique subfield of epidemiology, forensic epidemiology originated with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the 1990’s as a means of investigating cause and effect between suspected exposures and individual or clusters of cases of disease or injury.
This work will present detailed instructions on how to investigate injury or disease mechanisms and circumstances, how to evaluate if such mechanisms serve as a plausible cause of injury or disease, and how to assess the strength of association between an investigated plausible cause of an injury or disease and the occurrence of the injury or disease in the individual.
Forensic Epidemiology is intended to reach those individuals working in and studying forensic medicine, epidemiology, and law in order to teach the principles by which epidemiologic data, methods, and principles are used in the courts to answer fundamental questions critical to criminal and civil actions.

Features:
• Provides historical perspective on how epidemiologic evidence of causation has been used in courts in U.S. and Europe
• Presents the theory and science that underly the use of risk to assess individual causation
• Acts as a primer on epidemiologic methods and the various measures used to arrive at individualized comparative risk assessments and PC
• Covers appropriate background information on adjunctive disciplines, including forensic pathology, death investigation, biomechanics, and survival analysis

Authors
• Michael Freeman.
• Maurice Zeegers