Forensic Pathology

A medicolegal textbook by Vincent (pathology, U. of Texas-San Antonio), the Chief Medical Examiner for a Texas county, and Dominick, retired Chief Medical Examiner of New York City. They begin with an overview of the specialty that recognizes and interprets diseases and injuries in the human body for legal investigations. Then they consider such topics as the time of death, blunt trauma wounds, craniocerebral injuries, and airplane crashes. No date is noted for the first edition; the second has updated statistics and new chapters on deaths in nursing homes and sudden deaths during or immediately after a violent struggle unassociated with an anatomical cause of death. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)