Human Body Decomposition
Auteurs : Hayman Jarvis, Oxenham Marc
Chapter 1: Supravital Reactions in the Estimation of the Time Since Death (TSD)Chapter 2: Algor Mortis and Temperature-Based Methods of Estimating the Time Since DeathChapter 3: Biochemical Methods of Estimating the Time since DeathChapter 4: Research in the Later Stages of DecompositionChapter 5: Recent Research and Current Trends
Marc Oxenham is a Professor in Bioarchaeology at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. His expertise in human skeletal biology has been recognized nationally through invitations to consult on a range of forensic cases for the Australian Federal Police, Australian Government Solicitor, The Australian Defense Forces (in particular Unrecovered War Casualties-Army) as well as the New South Wales Police Force. His main research has concentrated on exploring aspects of human palaeopathology and behavior by way of analyses of human skeletal and dental material. He has held teaching and research positions at Colorado College, USA, and the ANU. He was president of the Australasian Society of Human Biology (2012-14), an Australian Future Fellow (2013-17), elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2011 and elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2016.
- Provides concise details of research, over the last 200 years, of estimating the time of death in decomposed bodies.
- Covers methods of research into human decomposition in the stages of body cooling to ambient temperature and the later stages of autolysis, putrefaction and skeletonisation.
- Includes a detailed account of recent research and future concepts.
- Concludes with an account of the difficulties which future research into human decomposition will encounter.
Date de parution : 04-2016
Ouvrage de 162 p.
15x22.8 cm