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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wolff, Brittany M

Titel

A review of 'body farm' research facilities across America with a focus on policy and the impacts when dealing with decompositional changes in human remains

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In the current research study, the use of content analysis secondary data analysis provided the exploratory research on the “body farm” research facilities across the United States. Open-ended survey questions were also utilized and sent to the six research facilities across the country. The use of open-ended survey questions in combination with a small sample size, resulted in only one institution willing to participate in the survey and one facility not able to participate. To resolve this limitation, the use of secondary data analysis from facility publications and websites were able to fill in some of the gaps on the survey. In the findings, there are several commonalities in the general policies of body donation and security, but differences in certain specific aspects of the body donation process and the variations in research.