3rd Edition
The Hospital Autopsy A Manual of Fundamental Autopsy Practice, Third Edition
The history of the autopsy
The future of the autopsy
The role of the autopsy in medical education
Autopsies and the law
Religious attitudes to death and post-mortem examinations
The safe and healthy autopsy
Autopsies of people with high-risk infections
The external examination
The pathology of wounds and injuries
The evisceration
Dissection of the internal organs
Examination of the nervous system
Fetal, perinatal and infant autopsies
The maternal autopsy
Toxicological and biochemical analyses
Microbiology of the autopsy
Investigating possible anaphylactic deaths
Perioperative and postoperative deaths
The radiological autopsy
The decomposed body and the unascertained autopsy
Reconstruction of the body
Autopsies and clinical audit
Reports, documentation and statements
Biography
Julian L Burton MBChB (Hons) MEd FHEA
Senior Teaching Fellow and Senate Award Fellow (Learning and Teaching) at the University of Sheffield, Sheffield
and
Coronial Pathologist at the Medico-Legal Centre, Sheffield
Guy Rutty MD MBBS FRCPath DipRCPath(Forensic) FFFLM FFSSoc
Professor of Forensic Pathology, Chief Forensic Pathologist, East Midlands Forensic Pathology Unit, University of Leicester
and
Home Office Registered Forensic Pathologist, Leicester, UK
"The Hospital Autopsy is greatly needed at a time when many junior pathologists are struggling to gain adequate autopsy teaching and experience...it is an essential text for reference in the post-mortem suite, as well as being useful for the examination"
—Bulletin of the Royal College of Pathologists"Nine years on from the last edition there has been considerable expansion... Significant improvements include the use of colour for photographs, diagrams, sub-headings and summary boxes... It is... essential reading for the dwindling band of autopsy pathologists."
—ACP News
