ANTHROP 3FA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: National Disaster Medical System, Forensic Anthropology, Natural Disaster
9 Apr 2016
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Most medicolegal investigations involve an interdisciplinary approach; involves physical anthropology, archaeology, and the law. Forensic anthropology in mass disaster response and disaster victim identi cation. Mass disaster or mass fatality incident- event that involves the deaths of multiple individuals and can range from a small-scale house re to a large-scale plane crash or act of terrorism. Disaster victim identi cation (dvi) follows a different work ow process and requires such planning and organization that a separate scienti c working group on disaster victim. Disaster mortuary operational response team (dmort)- response team of the national. Dvi operation is subject to the laws of the country in which the disaster has occurred. Ight) or open population (the number of victims is initially unknown i. e. natural disaster) Forensic anthropology in con ict and human rights investigations.
