Essentials of Autopsy Practice

1. Front Matter

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2. Diatom and Laboratory Tests to Support a Conclusion of Death by Drowning

   • Nobuhiro Yukawa, Eiji Kakizaki, Shuji Kozawa

   Pages 1-36

3. Deaths from Extremes of Temperature

   • Christopher M. Milroy, Jacqueline L. Parai

   Pages 37-52

4. The Radioactive Autopsy

   • Mark A. Singleton, Carolyn I. Richardson, Peter J. Bownes, Wendy B. Tindale, Julian L. Burton

   Pages 53-83

5. Chemical Contamination and the Autopsy

   • Robie Kamanyire, Ishani Kar-Purkayastha, Virginia Murray

   Pages 85-108

6. Blast Injuries

   • Nicholas C. A. Hunt

   Pages 109-133

7. A Pathologist’s Guide to Forensic Odontology Identification

   • Catherine M. T. Adams

   Pages 135-149

8. How Much Force?

   • Sarah V. Hainsworth

   Pages 151-170

9. How Much Force?

   • Nicholas C. A. Hunt

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10. Back Matter

    Pages 171-174

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Essentials of Autopsy Practice: Innovations, Updates and Advances in Practice is the fifth volume in the Essentials in Autopsy Practice series, covering topics of current and future interest. Designed to keep all involved in the investigation of death abreast of changes within the field, this volume covers a wide range of topical areas which can be encountered around the world.

Essentials of Autopsy Practice: Innovations, Updates and Advances in Practice covers death by drowning; deaths from extreme temperature; the radioactive autopsy; chemical contamination and the autopsy; blast injuries; forensic odontology identification; and determination of the force used to cause an injury.

Useful to both trainees and consultants in all specialty areas within pathology, including forensic pathology, Essentials of Autopsy Practice: Innovations, Updates and Advances in Practice also serves as a guide to all those involved in death investigation, i.e. nurses, lawyers, paramedics and police officers.

• autopsy
• blast
• chemical
• death
• drowning
• force
• forensic
• hyperthermia
• hypothermia
• odontology
• radiation

• , Forensic Pathology Unit, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, United Kingdom

  Guy N. Rutty

Guy Rutty is a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery and has a Medical Doctorate.  He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and holds the Royal College of Pathologists Diploma in Forensic Pathology. He is a Fellow of the Forensic Science Society and a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians.  He holds the Foundation Chair in Forensic Pathology at the University of Leicester where he is Chief Forensic Pathologist and he is an Honorary Consultant in Histopathology to the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and he is a Home Office Registered Forensic Pathologist, having been placed on the Home Office Accredited Register in 1996.  He has served as an elected member of Council of the Royal College of Pathologists and acted as the Chair of the Forensic Pathology Specialist Advisory Committee and remains on this Committee to date.  He is a visiting Fellow of Cranfield University and sits on the Academic Committee of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians where he is a member of their Research Committee having been the Foundation Chair of the committee.  He has been a member of the Policy Delivery Board for Forensic Pathology for the Home Office and is a member of the Netherlands Board of Court Experts Advisory Committee for Standards for Forensic Pathology.

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