Human hair in personal identification and documenting drug and substance abuse

Anthropologist

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-58

  Sen, Jaydip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH BENGAL   (India)

Author keywords

Drugs; Forensic; Future directions; Hair structure and formation; Hair types; Human hair; Problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953781732     PISSN: 09720073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09720073.2010.11891131     Document Type: Article

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