Developments in Skeletal Trauma: Blunt-Force Trauma

A Companion to Forensic Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 400-411

  Passalacqua, Nicholas V ^a,c   Fenton, Todd W ^b,c  

^a MERCYHURST COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BFT research, and nonhuman animal model use; Blunt force injuries, in terms of tension compression; Fracture propagation in bones; Historical trends in trauma analysis; History of BFT in forensic anthropology, confusing issues; History of BFT, in forensic anthropology; Skeletal trauma analysis, confronting forensic anthropologists; Skeletal trauma, and blunt force trauma; SWGANTH

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886231862     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118255377.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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