Table of Contents

Sudden Natural Deaths in Infancy and Childhood.- Post-Mortem Investigation of Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI): Role of Autopsy in Classification of Death.- Sudden Death from Pulmonary Causes.- Sectioning of the Heart, Searching for Pathology Under the Microscope and the Cardiac Proteomics Approach in the Study of Sudden Cardiac Death Cases.- Endocrine disorders with potentially fatal outcome.- Sudden Death From Infectious Disease.- Aviation Deaths.- Fatalities in general aviation: from balloons to helicopters.- The 9-11 Attacks: The Medicolegal Investigation of the World Trade Center Fatalities.- Injuries and Fatalities in All-Terrain Vehicle Crashes.- Advances in Entomological Methods for Death Time Estimation.- Tissue Fluorescence Spectroscopy in Death Time Estimation.- Heat-flow finite element models in Death Time Estimation.- The Use of Protein Markers for the Estimation of the Postmortem Interval.- Alcohol and drug fatalities in transportation – forensic-toxicological implications.

Reviews

From the reviews:“The book covers a broad variety of forensic pathological entities of interest for all those involved in death investigation. … This book makes a solid contribution to the growing number of textbooks available on forensic pathology and associated fields. Reading this book will undoubtedly be a useful experience for both beginners and experts in medicolegal and criminal investigations.” (Michael Tsokos, Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology, Vol. 8, 2012)