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Chick and the Dead : Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors by Carla Valentine (2017, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSt. Martin's Press
ISBN-101250120683
ISBN-139781250120687
eBay Product ID (ePID)227842858
Product Key Features
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameChick and the Dead : Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors
Publication Year2017
SubjectForensic Medicine, Personal Memoirs, Medical
TypeTextbook
AuthorCarla Valentine
Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography, Medical
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight13.4 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2017-004248
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal614.1
SynopsisCarla Valentine works with the dead. After studying forensics, she assisted pathologists with post-mortems for years before becoming the curator of the world's most famous pathology museum. When it comes to death, she truly is an expert, and in this book she shares that expertise. Using the most common post-mortem process as the backbone of the narrative, The Chick and the Dead takes the reader through the process of an autopsy while also describing the history and changing cultures of our relationship with the dead. The book is full of vivid insight into what happens to our bodies in the end. Each chapter considers an aspect of an autopsy alongside an aspect of Carla's own life and work and touches on some of the more controversial aspects of our feelings towards death, including the relationship between sex and death and our attitudes toward human tissue collection. Starting with the first cut, we move from external examination into the body itself, discovering more about the heart, stomach and brain, and into dismembered and reconstructed bodies, at each stage taking a colorful detour into the question of what these things can teach us about the living. Join Carla on the journey from microscope-requesting nine-year-old to pathology educator and death engager at a Victorian museum (a journey made via around 5,000 autopsies) as she tells the story of exactly what it's like to live a life immersed in death., I sew all his incisions together, I wash him, I comb his unkempt hair ... He actually looks better now than when he first came in. He's perfectly viewable for any family or friends ... but no one has come forward to ask to view him ... I gently graze his forehead with my hand to make sure his eyes are properly closed, then zip up the body bag and place him back in his section of the fridge. Book jacket.
LC Classification NumberRA1063.4.V35 2017
