ABSTRACT
Lynch’s Forensic Nursing Science (Chapter 4: Forensic Epidemiology and the Forensic Nurse by Steven A. Koehler, PhD, MPH) and emphasizes that forensic epidemiology started out with the investigation of terrorist activities with the methods of public health system epidemiology. A wider deŽnition of forensic epidemiology arrives with the concept of public death bearing the forensic attributes to the general public problem of death. A wide area of interchange of ideas is present when the concepts of forensic epidemiology are related to human sociology. Sociology is the academic home of criminalistics and its associated Želds. In many state scientiŽc academies and in many universities, the sociology department provides guidance to the criminalistics section. Harvard’s E.O. Wilson, PhD presented the human aspects of social biology in the last chapter of his book Sociobiology, €e New Synthesis several decades ago. He translated his biological experiences with colonial ants to the culture and learning behavior of human beings. Insights from this kind of experience and type of study provide important clues to the basic attributes of the common sociology of murder. Emanuel Tanay provides this type of analysis in his book €e Murderers (see Chapter 33).
