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Medicolegal Death Investigation (MDI) is designed to provide basic and recurrent guidance for medicolegal death investigators, coroners, medical examiners, crime scene investigators, firefighters, and emergency medical service providers. This step-by-step field guide provides instructions for a variety of death scenes including: homicides, suicides, drug overdoses, suspicious deaths, and much more.
Death Investigation is a complex process involving...
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It would come as no surprise that many readers may be shocked and intrigued by the title of our book. Some (especially our medical colleagues) may wonder why it is even worthwhile to raise the issue of killing by doctors. Killing is clearly antithetical to the Art and Science of Medicine, which is geared toward easing pain and suffering and to saving lives rather than smothering them. Doctors should be a source of comfort rather than a cause for alarm....
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En El olor dé las almendras amargas una buena parte de la obra de Gabriel García Márquez ha sido sometida a una mirada escrutadora desde la medicina forense y la criminalística para extraer con precisión quirúrgica cada fragmento que el autor colombiano ha narrado en relación con muertes violentas, lesiones físicas no letales, transgresiones éticas o las profundas motivaciones de las conductas delictivas que se exploran y las investigaciones...
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LA FIBROMIALGIA Y SUS DOS SINDROMES ACOMPAANTES. Es una enfermedad dolorosa cronica de presentacin patolgica principalmente en el aparato osteomuscular, le dio entidad clinica la ACR americana en el ao 1990. La palabra Fibromialgia significa dolor muscular y en el tejido fibroso, como son los ligamentos ,por ello se clasifica como Enfermedad Reumtica, siendo despus de la artrosis y la Artritis reumatoide, la de mayor incidencia en Reumatologia. Actualmente...
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George Washington, the former first president of the United States, lay in his bed suffering from a high fever, a raw throat, and labored breathing. His three physicians milled around his bed, treating Washington with blisters of cantharides, tartar emetic, and bloodletting, removing nearly 40 percent of his total blood volume and causing excruciating pain. When Washington finally was relieved of his misery and died, the three doctors could not agree...
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A lifeless newborn baby is found discarded in a motel Dumpster. Authorities quickly arrest the infant's teenage parents, charging them with murder. Did Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson, in fact, murder their own baby? Tammy Wynette died suddenly at a relatively young age, and yet no autopsy was performed? Was someone trying to hide the real cause of death? Did Sam Sheppard (later dubbed "The Fugitive" based on a television series) really kill his...
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Renowned forensic anthropologist Bill Bass-founder of the Body Farm-tackles one of his most baffling cases ever in this real-life spellbinder In 1978, 56-year-old Leoma Patterson left a bar in Clinton, Tennessee, and was never seen again. Six months later, a female skeleton was found on a wooded lakeshore in a neighboring county. The bones were consistent with those of the missing woman, and one of Patterson's daughters recognized a ring found at...
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Crime novelist and former police officer Nigel McCrery provides an account of all the major areas of forensic science from around the world over the past two centuries. The book weaves dramatic narrative and scientific principles together in a way that allows readers to figure out crimes along with the experts. Readers are introduced to such fascinating figures as Dr. Edmond Locard, the French Sherlock Holmes; Edward Heinrich, Wizard of Berkeley,...
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Why would someone want to hang out with dead bodies? With curious anecdotes and unbelievable truth, funeral director Robert Webster reveals that answer and more, offering readers entertaining and quirky stories gleaned from a life lived around death. Webster tackles those embarrassing questions we all have about what really goes on behind the scenes when you've left this world: Strange things people put in caskets; The biggest rip-offs in the business;...
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"Vital Signs," a popular column featured in Discover Magazine, has long been a favorite of readers, showcasing, each month, and fascinating new tales of strange illnesses and diseases that baffle doctors and elude diagnosis. Each tale is true and borders on the unbelievable. It's no wonder that throughout the years the column has become an unofficial textbook for medical students, interns, doctors, and anyone interested in human illness and staying...
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Behind the Murder Curtain is the true story of Bruce Sackman, Special Agent in Charge of the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General. Sackman's main responsibilities had been investigating white-collar crimes such as embezzlement when he is drawn into the macabre world of doctors and nurses who murder their patients. Sackman evolves from an investigator of routine cases to the world's leading expert on Medical Serial Killers-MSKs-doctors...
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As gripping as it is gruesome, How to Solve a Murder is a fascinating insight into the career of a pathologist told by experts in the field. Includes a foreword from Dr. Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes. Fractured skulls. Gas masks. Brain buckets. Not your typical workspace, but for forensic scientist Derek and his secretary Pauline, it was just another day at the office. The husband and wife duo have been behind some of the...
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Extrait : "A entendre le bon médecin, Louis XIII enfant était très enclin à boire de l'alcool, ce don’t il se montre très inquiet : Héroard craignait beaucoup pour son royal client l'usage du vin (l'alcoolisme n'est pas une préoccupation médicale d'apparition contemporaine). Henri IV, qui aimait le bon vin, en faisait verser au Dauphin toutes les fois qu'il dînait à sa table."
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Extrait: "L'histoire des rois de la première race n'est qu'incertitude et chaos. Les vacillations du pouvoir, l'existence éphémère des princes, la variation des récits sur les événements principaux, les changements de limites, la mobilité des principes, donnent à la narration des historiens les plus exacts une ambiguïté qui rend pénible le soin de démêler la vérité à travers ces assertions contradictoires."
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Have you ever been locked in a cooler with piles of decomposing humans for so long that you had to shave all the hair off your body in order to get rid of the smell? Joseph Scott Morgan did. Have you ever lit a Marlboro from the ignited gas of a bloated dead man's belly? Joseph Scott Morgan has. Have you ever wept over a dead dog while not giving a shit about the dead owner laying next him? Morgan did. Were you named after a murder victim? Joseph...
17) Summary and Analysis of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers: Based on the Book by Mary Roach
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Stiff tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Mary Roach's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach includes: Historical context; Chapter-by-chapter summaries; Profiles of the characters...
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Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary to scientists and doctors. Vaccines and antibiotics, the mainstays of modern medicine, have not been able to conquer infectious microbes because of their amazing ability to adapt, evolve, and spread to new places. Terrorism aside, one of the greatest dangers from infectious disease we face today is from a massive outbreak of drug-resistant microbes. Deadly Outbreaks...
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