This comprehensive text takes an interdisciplinary and international approach to understanding taphonomic modifications. Topics covered include: Macroenvironmental variation and decomposition in different environments, taphonomic interpretation of water deaths, as well as interpretation of buried human remains. Liberally illustrated with photographs, maps, and other images, Forensic Anthropology and Medicine: Complementary Sciences From Recovery to Cause of Death is a valuable source of information for postmortem death investigation.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"... an important contribution to the rapidly growing literature in forensic anthopology ..." - International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
"...a detailed guide to the techniques involved in analyzing and interpreting skeletal remains in a medicolegal context." -Canadian Society of Forensic Science Journal
Auflage
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Professional/practitioner
Produkt-Hinweis
Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
Illustrationen
197
197 s/w Abbildungen
480 p. 197 illus.
Maße
Höhe: 233 mm
Breite: 160 mm
Dicke: 25 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-58829-824-9 (9781588298249)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-59745-099-7
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Two Sciences, One Objective.- to Forensic Anthropology.- to Forensic Medicine and Pathology.- Forensic Anthropology and Forensic Pathology.- Aging Living Young Individuals.- Biological vs Legal Age of Living Individuals.- Pathophysiology of Death and Forensic Investigation: From Recovery to Cause of Death.- Decay Process of a Cadaver.- Understanding the Circumstances of Decomposition When the Body Is Skeletonized.- Forensic Investigation of Corpses in Various States of Decomposition.- Identification and Differential Diagnosis of Traumatic Lesions of the Skeleton.- Biological Identity.- Methodology and Reliability of Sex Determination From the Skeleton.- Age Assessment of Child Skeletal Remains in Forensic Contexts.- Determination of Adult Age at Death in the Forensic Context.- Is It Possible to Escape Racial Typology in Forensic Identification?.- Estimation and Evidence in Forensic Anthropology.- Pathology as a Factor of Personal Identity in Forensic Anthropology.- Personal Identification of Cadavers and Human Remains.- Particular Contexts: Crimes Against Humanity and Mass Disasters.- Forensic Investigations Into the Missing.- Crimes Against Humanity.- Mass Disasters.
