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Decay Process of a Cadaver

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Forensic Anthropology and Medicine

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Because forensic anthropologists and pathologists can be confronted in their professional practices with bodies or mortal remains in different states of preservation and/or decay, it is essential for this book to have a chapter that fully documents the pathway of a body from its death until disintegration.

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  1. Serviço Tanatologia Forense, Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal, Coimbra, Portugal

    Jo&#00E3o Pinheiro

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  1. Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Populations du Passé, Université Bordeaux 1, Talence, France

    Aurore Schmitt PhD

  2. Departamento de Antropologia, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Eugénia Cunha PhD

  3. Serviço Tanatologia Forense, Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal, Coimbra, Portugal

    João Pinheiro MD, MSci

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Pinheiro, J. (2006). Decay Process of a Cadaver. In: Schmitt, A., Cunha, E., Pinheiro, J. (eds) Forensic Anthropology and Medicine. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-099-7_5

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