Folder 8 - DNA and Disaster Victim Identification
Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) is a novel form of expert practice of recent origin. However, the identification of disaster victims, where mass deaths follow natural or man-made catastrophes such as earthquakes, air disasters, floods, military actions and ‘genocide’, has been hugely advanced by the application of advances in DNA profiling. Disaster victim identification by DNA also touches on areas of profound significance to contemporary society, including the contested authority of science and technology; the effect of novel technologies on beliefs and practices to do with death, burial and mourning; notions of kinship, citizenship, community and continuity; and professionalization and training within an emerging discipline. The papers included in this folder consider social, ethical, cultural or political aspects of this scientific and technological practice.
Presidents DNA Initiative (2005) Identifying Victims Using DNA: A Guide for Families- Prinz et al (2007) DNA Commission of the International Society for Forensic Genetics (ISFG): Recommendations regarding the role of forensic genetics for disaster victim identification (DVI)
- Interpol (2009) Disaster victim identification guide.
- Scully (2014) Naming the dead: DNA-based identification of historical remains as an act of care
- Scully and Williams (2014) Approaching disaster victim identification
- Bennett (2014) Who knows who we are? Questioning DNA analysis in disaster victim identification
- Cox and Jones (2014) Ethical considerations in the use of DNA as a contribution toward the determination of identification in historic cases: considerations from the Western front
- Haimes and Toom (2014) Hidden in full sight: kinship, science and the law in the aftermath of the Srebrenica genocide
- Williams and Wienroth (2014) Identity, mass fatality and forensic genetics
- Woods (2014) Death duty – caring for the dead in the context of disaster
- Moon (2016) Human rights, human remains forensic humanitarianism and the human rights of the dead
- Smith (2016) The missing, the martyred and the disappeared: Global networks, technical intensification and the end of human rights genetics
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