Forensic Anthropology and Medicine

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Two Sciences, One Objective

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction to Forensic Anthropology

      • Douglas H. Ubelaker

      Pages 3-12

   3. Introduction to Forensic Medicine and Pathology

      • Jo&#00E3o Pinheiro

      Pages 13-37

   4. Forensic Anthropology and Forensic Pathology

      • Eugénia Cunha, Cristina Cattaneo

      Pages 39-53

3. Aging Living Young Individuals

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55

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   2. Biological vs Legal Age of Living Individuals

      • Francesco Introna, Carlo P. Campobasso

      Pages 57-82

4. Pathophysiology of Death and Forensic Investigation: From Recovery to Cause of Death

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Decay Process of a Cadaver

      • Jo&#00E3o Pinheiro

      Pages 85-116

   3. Understanding the Circumstances of Decomposition When the Body Is Skeletonized

      • Henri Duday, Mark Guillon

      Pages 117-157

   4. Forensic Investigation of Corpses in Various States of Decomposition

      • Jo&#00E3o Pinheiro, Eugénia Cunha

      Pages 159-195

   5. Identification and Differential Diagnosis of Traumatic Lesions of the Skeleton

      • Conrado Rodríguez-Martín

      Pages 197-221

5. Biological Identity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223

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   2. Methodology and Reliability of Sex Determination From the Skeleton

      • Jaroslav Bruzek, Pascal Murail

      Pages 225-242

   3. Age Assessment of Child Skeletal Remains in Forensic Contexts

      • Mary E. Lewis, Ambika Flavel

      Pages 243-257

   4. Determination of Adult Age at Death in the Forensic Context

      • Eric Baccino, Aurore Schmitt

      Pages 259-280

   5. Is It Possible to Escape Racial Typology in Forensic Identification?

      • John Albanese, Shelley R. Saunders

      Pages 281-316

   6. Estimation and Evidence in Forensic Anthropology

      • Lyle W. Konigsberg, Ann H. Ross, William L. Jungers

      Pages 317-331

   7. Pathology as a Factor of Personal Identity in Forensic Anthropology

      • Eugænia Cunha

      Pages 333-358

   8. Personal Identification of Cadavers and Human Remains

      • Cristina Cattaneo, Danilo De Angelis, Davide Porta, Marco Grandi

      Pages 359-379

Recent political, religious, ethnic, and racial conflicts, as well as mass disasters, have significantly helped to bring to light the almost unknown dis- pline of forensic anthropology. This science has become particularly useful to forensic pathologists because it aids in solving various puzzles, such as id- tifying victims and documenting crimes. On topics such as mass disasters and crimes against humanity, teamwork between forensic pathologists and for- sic anthropologists has significantly increased over the few last years. This relationship has also improved the study of routine cases in local medicolegal institutes. When human remains are badly decomposed, partially skelet- ized, and/or burned, it is particularly useful for the forensic pathologist to be assisted by a forensic anthropologist. It is not a one-way situation: when the forensic anthropologist deals with skeletonized bodies that have some kind of soft tissue, the advice of a forensic pathologist would be welcome. Forensic anthropology is a subspecialty/field of physical anthropology. Most of the background on skeletal biology was gathered on the basis of sk- etal remains from past populations. Physical anthropologists then developed an indisputable “know-how”; nevertheless, one must keep in mind that looking for a missing person or checking an assumed identity is quite a different matter. Pieces of information needed by forensic anthropologists require a higher level of reliability and accuracy than those granted in a general archaeological c- text. To achieve a positive identification, findings have to match with e- dence, particularly when genetic identification is not possible.

• anthropology
• forensic medicine
• forensic pathology
• identification
• pathology

"... 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

• Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Populations du Passé, Université Bordeaux 1, Talence, France

  Aurore Schmitt

• Departamento de Antropologia, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

  Eugénia Cunha

• Serviço Tanatologia Forense, Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal, Coimbra, Portugal

  João Pinheiro

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