ANTH 2014 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Biological Anthropology, Homicide, Blunt Trauma
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A physical anthropologist who works in an applied area of physical anthropology in what is known as a medicolegal context. Forensics traditionally a debate team: forensic anthropologists debate findings in public forums. Identify the dead, report findings age, sex, ancestry: describe trauma, recover remains from field , meaning any situation, make a statement about time since death, also known as a post mortem interval. Medical examiner system: chief medical examiner, pathologists. In louisiana, there is no medical examiner system, only a coroner system: each parish has an elected coroner. Coroner system in louisiana: elected position, main job- mental health and unattended deaths. If a medical doctor does not run, any citizen can: most are medical doctors; only a few are pathologists, coroners hire pathologists to perform autopsies, death investigation determines cause and manner of death, example: Cause massive hemorrhage right temporal lobe, blunt force trauma.
