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: 1. Death as a Result of Starvation: Diagnostic Criteria
Madea, Burkhard
pp. 003-024








2. Skull Injuries Caused by Blows With Glass Bottles
Madea, Burkhard; Schmidt, Peter H.; Lignitz, Eberhard; Padosch, Stephan A.
pp. 027-042








3. Primary Cerebral Neoplasms as a Cause of Sudden, Unexpected Death
Matschke, Jakob
pp. 045-058








4. Obesity Epidemic in the United States: A Cause of Morbidity and Premature Death
Hunsaker, Donna M.; Hunsaker, John C.
pp. 061-098








5. Infant and Early Childhood Asphyxial Deaths: Diagnostic Issues
Byard, Roger W.; Tsokos, Michael
pp. 101-124








6. Complex Suicides
Bohnert, Michael
pp. 127-144








7. Occupation-Related Suicides
Schmidt, Peter H.; Padosch, Stephan A.; Madea, Burkhard
pp. 145-166








8. Sudden, Unexpected Death Related to Viral Myocarditis: A Survey of Histological, Immunohistochemical, and Molecularpathological Methods for the Postmortem Diagnosis
Dettmeyer, Reinhard; Madea, Burkhard
pp. 169-186








9. Human Primitive Behavior
Schäfer, Achim Th.
pp. 189-204








10. Arthropods and Corpses
Benecke, Mark
pp. 207-240