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

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Автор: Alexey Reshetun

Форматы: PDF

Издательство: Альпина

Год: 2021

Место издания: Москва

ISBN: 978-5-9614-7201-1

Страниц: 289

Артикул: 108417

Возрастная маркировка: 16+

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What happens to your body after you die? Ask forensic medical examiner Alexey Reshetun. For more than twenty years he has spent every day with the newly dead, conducting autopsies and searching for the cause – or causes – of their death. In layman’s terms – and with some dark humor from time to time – he explains what forensic medical examiners do, how they dier from pathologists, how an autopsy is carried out, and what happens to organs after they are removed. Along the way he gives a brief overview of the history of forensic medicine and procedural basics – from examination of a body at the scene of death to exhumation and examination months after burial. He shares his own stories from his practice – how he knew the old woman in the village was murdered in her bed, or how he and his team discovered that the man who keeled over on his porch was not killed by a heart attack but by a stray bullet shot by a neighbor down the street. Death is a topic we often try to avoid, but Reshetun makes it as fascinating as life. And, in the process, he sheds new light on an old truth: our lives – and deaths – are in our own hands. After reading this book, you might drop some of your bad habits – and take up some good ones. If These Bodies Could Talk is for anyone who is curious about the real – not fictional – life of medical examiners.

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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

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