Contributions of pathological alterations to forensic anthropology interpretation

American Contributions to Anthropology.

Special Articles: Chemical Basis of Fever: DR. VALY MENKIN. Teland Liver and Vitamin A Toxicity: EDWARD J. HERBST, PAUL L. PAVOEK and DR. C. A. ELVEJHEM. Exchange Reactions of Diiodotyrosine: DR. WILBUR H. MILLER, DR. GEORGE W. ANDERSON, R. K. MADISON and DR. D. J. SALLEY. Effect of Hexyl Resyrcinol on Diffusion of Chloride and Sulfate through Sintered Glass and Other Membranes: DR. ROBERT L. D...

Anthropology in a Forensic Context

Forensic Anthropology : Current Tools , Future Concepts

Traditionally, methodology within forensic anthropology has involved very basic techniques of measurement, observation and interpretation. Rooted in the academic fields of anatomy and physical anthropology, forensic anthropology has grown to address problems of recovery, determination of species, estimation of age at death, sex, ancestry, stature, postmortem interval, and the evaluation of evid...

Molecular Anthropology: Population and Forensic Genetic Applications

Molecular anthropology the study of human genetic polymorphisms is fast and ever-growing branch of anthropology that holds a great promise for both past and future. Indian subcontinent with its remarkable environmental, geographical, morphological, genetic, cultural and linguistic diversity provides immense promise for anthropological investigations to address origins of its people, population ...

[The dialogues between anthropology and health: contributions to public policies].

In order to examine the development of anthropological paradigms and their dialogue with medicine, I divide the discussion into two general, but non-exclusive, approaches: one that focuses on health and disease as social and cultural experience and construction, and another that examines health from an interactional and political perspective. For the first approach, I focus on North American an...