pathology

Go behind the scenes and learn how criminal investigators examine bodies after their death to solve crimes and catch criminals.

Offers medical students a reference guide to diagnosing more than 350 common diseases and disorders in the human body. Describes diseases of all major body systems including the urinary, reproductive, digestive, respiratory, cardiovascular, nervous, and endocrine systems. Each disease entry includes a description, etiology, symptoms, diagnostic procedures, treatment, complementary therapy, prognosis, and prevention. Features color illustrations and diagrams, case studies, online video clips, and ICD-10-CM codes for each disease.

Discusses five forensic investigations performed by Cyril H. Wecht, and features information on the deaths of Anna Nicole Smith, her son Daniel, and Stephanie Crowe; as well as the murder trial of David Westerfield, and the actions of doctors at the Memorial Medical Center in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

An encyclopedia of nearly one hundred diseases and viruses, including cholera, hepatitis, influenza, polio, and yellow fever.

"Offers useful information applying evolutionary biology, functional genomics, and cell communication studies to complex disease. ... hones in on the 'why and how' of evolution by uniquely focusing on the cell as the smallest unit of biologic structure and function"--Amazon.com.

A biography of medical innovator Thomas D. M?tter, a Philadelphia plastic surgeon of the nineteenth century who pioneered the use of ether and the sterilization of surgical tools, and who left behind a collection of medical oddities that are today housed in the M?tter Museum.

Concise text and more than seven hundred color illustrations present the parts of the human body, arranged by system, and ten classes of diseases and disorders. Includes a glossary and an index.

Jenna Blake, working as a pathology assistant at the local hospital, decides to investigate when her friends at Somerset University are targeted by a killer who is removing the hearts of his victims.