If These Bodies Could Talk : true Tales of a Medical Examiner

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Foreword to the New Edition
Introduction
PART ONE. Laying the Groundwork
1. What Exactly Is Forensic Medicine?
2. Just Who Is a Medical Examiner?
3. Pathologist or Medical Examiner? What Is Similar, What Is Not
4. To Cut or Not to Cut? That Is the Question
PART TWO. The Professional
1. Our Tools
2. Put On Your Lab Coat
3. When the Cure Is Worse Than the Disease
4. Land of the Living
5. Student Life
PART THREE. Working With the Dead
1. Phenomena of Phenomena
2. Examining a Body: Expectations and Realities
3. Exhumation
PART FOUR. Trauma
1. A Bat, a Hammer, a Stick, and Other Ways to Die: Blunt Hard Objects
2. Forks Over Knives: One Hole versus Five — Sharp Instruments and the Wounds They Leave Behind
3. Buckle Up for Safety, Buckle Up!
4. Gunshots and Explosions in Times of Peace
5. Mass Casualty Incidents
6. Off with Her Head!
PART FIVE. Asphyxiation
1. Hanging: Fact and Fiction
2. Strangulation: «Eventually, It All Comes to Light»
3. Death in the Water: Sometimes It Is Drowning, Sometimes It Is Not
4. There’s No Life without Air
5. Warning! Choking Hazard
PART SIX. Heat and Electricity
1. Fair Heat Breaks No Bones
2. The Cold Never Bothered Me, Anyway
3. I Am in Shock
PART SEVEN. Drugs and Alcohol
1. Drink Like a Fish
2. Say No to Drugs!
PART EIGHT. Children
1. Cannibal Parents
2. You Are Going to Poke an Eye Out!
3. Parental Neglect
PART NINE. Disease
1. Sudden Death: Cardiovascular Diseases
2. Cancers
3. Tuberculosis and HIV
PART TEN. Myths
1. Old Wives’ Tales
2. Worms and Fecal Stones
3. Smells
PART ELEVEN. MISCELLANEOUS
1. Morgue-turned-abortion Clinic
2. A Bad Neighborhood
3. Transgender and Intersex Cases
4. Train and Quarry
5. A Funny Story
6. Spirituality
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography