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Forensic Anthropology and Medicine
Complementary Sciences From Recovery to Cause of Death
Schmitt, Aurore (Ed.)
2006, 480 p. 197 illus., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-58829-824-9
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The aim of this book is to dissect forensic anthropology and forensic pathology in its various and valuable contributions to
contemporary society. It gives answers and approaches key questions to this sciences' growing audience within different
countries in the recent years. It aims to provide a practical approach to the investigation of bodies that are not fresh
enough to be considered a normal forensic case. The specialists of both areas can have in a single book the useful tools
and practical recommendations of these specialities (forensic anthropology and forensic pathology) that are spread
among other textbooks.
It proposes original, illustrated, and updated articles on the four parameters of the biological profile; it discusses the
factors of individualization; it explains the decay process of a body and the relevance of each step for forensic sciences,
providing a useful approach to investigate such corpses; it reviews bone trauma; it facilitate the access to a number of
international organizations and protocols related with the subject; it compares the perspectives of expertises from
different countries, namely Europe, North America, and Latin America. The majority of the authors found in this volume
have quite a lot of experience with the subjects that they discuss. Finally, this book provides a bridge between forensic
anthropology and forensic pathology, and brings practical advice from physical anthropology.
Forensic Anthropology and Medicine: Complementary Sciences From Recovery to Cause of Death presents both
forensic anthropology and forensic pathology in their various and valuable contributions to contemporary society.
Providing original, illustrated, and updated articles on the four parameters of the biological profile, this text encompasses
the factors of individualization; the decay process of a body and the relevance of each step for forensic sciences; bone
trauma; access to a number of international organizations; and protocols related with the subject, all with perspectives of
expertise from different countries, namely Europe, North America, and Latin America.
Forensic Anthropology and Medicine: Complementary Sciences From Recovery to Cause of Death strengthens the
contributions of forensic anthropologists in the main stages of forensic work (recovery, identification, and determination of
cause of death). Organized in five parts, Part I presents both disciplines-forensic anthropology and forensic medicine
focused specially on forensic pathology. Part II contains techniques for age estimation of living individuals for reasons of
imputability, one of the growing subfields of forensic anthropology. Part III discusses all the steps of forensic analysis,
precisely from recovery to the cause of death. Part IV reviews the state of knowledge on assessing gender, age, stature,
and ancestry from skeletal remains, discussing and reviewing the question of personal identity. Part V presents a clear
example of the real value of a multidisciplinary investigation, with mass disasters and crimes against humanity
highlighted.
Comprehensive and written by experts in the field, Forensic Anthropology and Medicine: Complementary Sciences From
Recovery to Cause of Death offers forensic scientists, anthropologists, medical doctors, and police officers a bridge
between forensic anthropology and forensic pathology that will grow and develop very closely in the future, whenever
humanity has the need.
Written for:
Forensic Scientists, Forensic Pathologists, Forensic Anthropologists, Physical Anthropologists, Forensic Physicians,
Medical Doctors, Police Officers, Prosecutors and Criminal Lawyers, and Graduate Students of Forensic Sciences