Medical Impacts of Anthropometric Records

Abstract

Anthropology is now one of the inter-disciplinary scientific fields that is gaining much attention in forensic, socio-cultural, industrial and bio-medical applications. There is a need for a better awareness of some of the impacts - past and present, in the medical practice, of the records that were obtained by workers in this field in view of their proper applications. and future reference. Compilation of anthropometric works and records was conducted to evaluate the previous and current implications with the aim to highlight the importance of this seemingly old but yet evolving and dynamic subject and to elucidate its usefulness. However, despite the arduous efforts to get reliable data from anthropometric investigations, errors had most times characterized the concluding postulations of many workers in this field in the past, creating skepticism. But with better attention being given to the exercise, possible improvement in the methodology of the study with resultant authentic records and more reliable conclusion is anticipated.L' anthropologie a acqu\uecs droit de cit\ue9 en tant que domaine scientifique interdisciplinaire qui s'impose dans les applications l\ue9gales, socio-culturelles et bio-m\ue9dicales. Ainsi, \uecl est n\ue9cessaire de bien comprendre l'impact-pass\ue9 et pr\ue9sent dans la pratique m\ue9dicale_sur les registres que ceux qui travaillent dans le domaine ont obtenus en vue de leurs applications appropri\ue9es, et pour des r\ue9f\ue9rences futures. Les travaux anthropom\ue9triques et les registres ont \ue9t\ue9 compil\ue9s pour \ue9valuer les implications ant\ue9rieures et celles qui sont en cours, afin de mettre en vedette l' importance de cette discipline apparemment vieille mais qui continue \u101 se d\ue9v\ue9lopper et \u101 se dynamiser et de faire le point sur son utilit\ue9. Cependant, malgr\ue9 les efforts ardus d\ue9ploy\ue9s pour obtenir des donn\ue9es s\ufbres qu'on peut croire sur les investigations anthropom\ue9triques, des erreurs ont toujours domin\ue9, dans le pass\ue9, les r\ue9sultats de beaucoup de recherches dans le domaine, cr\ue9ant ainsi un doute. Mais, si on accorde plus de s\ue9rieux \u101 l' exercise, on anticipe une am\ue9lioration en m\ue9thodologie de recherche quand on a des registres authentiques et une conclusion plus fiable