A collection of cutting-edge accounts of special topics from various
fields of forensic pathology and death scene investigation. The authors
offer critical insight into the medicolegal investigation of bodies
found in water, the forensic aspects of the human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV)-1 infection of the central nervous system, deaths in a head-down
position, and forensic bitemark analysis. Additional chapters address
taphonomic changes in human bodies during the early postmortem interval,
arrhythmogenic ventricular dysplaisia that produces sudden death in
young people, the postmortem diagnosis of death in anaphylaxis, and
iatrogenici deaths. The forensic aspects of suicide, murder-suicide, and
suicide trends in the United States are also discussed, along with the
evaluation of fatal pulmonary thromboembolism and the use of radiology
in medicolegal investigations.