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  • The Autopsy: More than you ever wanted to know

    Death is inevitable. But what happens to the body after death? This book sheds a little light into the darker recesses of the morgue, answering--in exquisite detail--the questions we're often afraid to ask: How and on whom are autopsies performed? What special techniques do pathologists and medical examiners use? When are bodies exhumed? Can the pathologist really determine an accurate time of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Global Healthcare Volunteer's Handbook: What You Need to Know Before You Go

    Thinking about volunteering with a healthcare team in a less-developed country? The need for global healthcare volunteers is critical. Yet, many healthcare professionals and students find the path to volunteering their services to be confusing and fraught with frustration. This book, based on Dr. Iserson's experiences teaching and practicing medicine on all seven continents, provides the nuts-and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grave Words: Notifying Survivors about Sudden, Unexpected Deaths

    Everyone dreads having to notify survivors about sudden deaths. Yet healthcare, law enforcement, fire service, religious and military personnel must often take on that task—often with little or no formal training. Grave Words helps lessen notifiers' stress by providing them with detailed protocols for nearly every death-notification situation, explanations about how to employ these protocols, and ... Read more

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  • Demon Doctors: Physicians as Serial Killers

    Abandoning the Hippocratic Oath, a few physicians over the past few centuries intentionally killed patients, experimental subjects, family members, and hapless strangers. Some had hundreds of victims; others destroyed or hid their victims' bodies well enough so the body count is uncertain.This book describes the life, gruesome crimes and, in many cases, the punishments—usually hanging, but also ... Read more

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  • Improvised Medicine: Providing Care in Extreme Environments, 2nd edition

    Deliver quality healthcare in the most challenging field conditionsComprehensive yet compact, practical, and enduring, Improvised Medicine: Providing Care in Extreme Environments, Second Edition, is the one book to toss into your bag when going to practice medicine in global, disaster, or other resource-poor settings, including theaters of war, regions of civil unrest, and economically deprived ... Read more

    $102.59 USD

  • Improvised Medicine: Providing Care in Extreme Environments

    Deliver quality healthcare in the most challenging field conditionsFull of practical clinical pearls and proven strategies, this indispensible guide shows you how to operate outside your comfort zone and devise effective treatment solutions when the traditional tools (medications, equipment, and staff) are unavailable—or when you need to provide care outside of your specialty. Improvised Medicine ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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    The Greatest Cases of New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner

    by Colin Evans ...
    For almost a century, New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has presided over the dead. Over the years, the OCME has endured everything-political upheavals, ghastly murders, bloody gang wars, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and non-stop battles for power and influence-and remains the final authority in cases of sudden, unexplained, or violent death.Founded in 1918, the OCME has evolved ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Mortician Diaries

    The Dead-Honest Truth from a Life Spent with Death

    After 50 years in the funeral business 80-year-old grandmother-undertaker June Knights Nadle has seen it all at least all of what goes on before during and after lifes ultimate challenge. In Mortician Diaries she combines equal doses of charm humanity humor and reality to tell it like it is on this taboo subject. A kind of Prairie Home Companion set in a mortuary the book features memorable ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Unnatural Causes

    From the Case Files of Notorious USA

    Series series Notorious USA
    With Photos!From the dark and bloody ground of Kentucky, to the peaceful Amish communities of Pennsylvania, to the cities and towns crisscrossing Ohio, murder and mayhem has been a part of it all. Within the pages of this latest volume in Notorious USA’s New York Times bestselling series you’ll discover how the unsuspecting succumbed to the evil that caught them by surprise, and what the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Confessions of Emergency Room Doctors

    Rocky Lang and Dr. Erick Montero offer up more than 200 firsthand accounts of emergency room dramas along with bizarre and insightful medical facts and stats inside Confessions of Emergency Room Doctors. Sample entries include:* Strange Disease Fact: A melcryptovestimentaphilliac is someone who compulsively steals ladies underwear.* Dr. Brown, Chicago Hospital, writes: "A woman came into the ER, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cemetery Stories

    Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Death

    An insider's tour of cemetery culture—from embalming to epitaphs, restless ghosts, crimes against the dead, and more.Admit it: You're fascinated by cemeteries. We all die, and for most of us, a cemetery is our final resting place. But how many people really know what goes on inside, around, and beyond them? Enter the world of the dead as author Katherine Ramsland talks to mortuary assistants, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mortuary Confidential:

    From scary to heartwarming and hilarious, an assortment of behind-the-scenes, true stories about life as an undertaker.From shoot-outs at funerals to dead men screaming and runaway corpses, undertakers have plenty of unusual stories to tell—and a special way of telling them.In this macabre and moving compilation, funeral directors across the country share their most embarrassing, jaw-dropping, ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus