Main description:

Cutting-edge accounts of special topics from various fields of forensic pathology and death scene investigation. The authors explore new avenues for analyzing the pathology of death from starvation (child neglect), head injuries inflicted by glass bottles, the clinical and pathological features of primary cerebral neoplasms, obesity as it is relevant to the forensic pathologist, and infant and early childhood asphyxial death. Other areas of interest covered include suicide, viral myocarditis in sudden death cases, curious death scene phenomena (hiding, covering and undressing), forensic entomology, the interpretation of toxicological findings, anabolic-androgenic-steroid abuse, and autopsy findings of subendocardial hemorrhages.

Contents:

Death From Environmental Conditions

Death as a Result of Starvation: Diagnostic Criteria
Burkhard Madea

Trauma

Skull Injuries Caused by Blows With Glass Bottles
Burkhard Madea, Peter H. Schmidt, Eberhard Lignitz, and Stephan A. Padosch

Forensic Neuropathology

Primary Cerebral Neoplasms as a Cause of Sudden, Unexpected Death
Jakob Matschke

Death From Natural Causes

Obesity Epidemic in the United States: A Cause of Morbidity and Premature Death
Donna M. Hunsaker and John C. Hunsaker III

Child Abuse, Neglect, and Infanticide

Infant and Early Childhood Asphyxial Deaths: Diagnostic Issues
Roger W. Byard and Michael Tsokos

Suicide

Complex Suicides
Michael Bohnert

Occupation-Related Suicides
Peter H. Schmidt, Stephan A. Padosch, and Burkhard Madea

Infectious Diseases

Sudden, Unexpected Death Related to Viral Myocarditis: A Survey of Histological, Immunohistochemical, and Molecularpathological Methods for the Postmortem Diagnosis
Reinhard Dettmeyer and Burkhard Madea

Death Scene Investigation

Human Primitive Behavior
Achim Th. Schafer

Forensic Entomology

Arthropods and Corpses
Mark Benecke

Toxicology

Practical Toxicology for the Forensic Pathologist
James R. Gill

Performance-Enhancing Drugs

Long-Term Effects of Anabolic-Androgenic-Steroid Abuse: Morphological Findings Associated With Fatal Outcome
Roland Hausmann

Forensic Differential Diagnosis

Subendocardial Hemorrhages
Stephan Seidl

Index