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, andupdated
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 veryclosely in
the future, whenever humanity has the need.
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