ANT205H5 Lecture Notes - Blunt Trauma, Stab Wound, Collagen
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Cause/manner & mode of death /: the coroner/medical examiner is the ultimate authority of. Cause/manner & mode of death however when there is no soft tissue available a forensic anthropologist will be consulted. Cause of death refers to the disease or injury. Manner of death refers to the type of death including: homicide, suicide, accident, natural causes and undetermined. Mode of death is the method by which death occurs: i. e shooting, strangling. Pathologist authority is required to describe the soft tissue changes to vital centres like the heart and brain. Cause of death is left to the pathologists. Cause of death involves the f. a providing info to assist the determination of cause of death. Identifying, describing, recording bone trauma or looking at angles of entry, direction & force of blows. Or analyzing patterns & timing of events that are am versus pm.
