Ethics and Issues in the Use of Human Skeletal Remains in Paleopathology

A Companion to Paleopathology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 15-33

  Lambert, Patricia M ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AAPA Code of Ethics, not just an ironclad formula in making decisions; Anthropological study of human remains, multidisciplinary empirical; Approaches, issues, refraining from judging by modern value systems; Ethical standards laws guiding research in the US and elsewhere; Human remains, cadavers skeletons, physical of once living people; Human skeletal remains in paleopathology, ethics and issues; Laws and ambiguities, complexities with the secular religious colliding; Laws underlying complex ethical dilemmas, in which scientists find themselves; Legal ethical debates over repatriation reburial, overshadowing ethical issues; Modern ethical issues in scientific use of human skeletal remains

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885550108     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444345940.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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