02551cam a2200349 i 4500 299469195 TxAuBib 20170721120000.0 170301s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017004248 9781250120687 25.99 1250120683 25.99 eng rda TxAuBib rda Valentine, Carla. The chick and the dead [BOOK] : life and death behind mortuary doors / Carla Valentine. Past mortem. First U.S. edition. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017. xi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibiographical references. "Carla Valentine works with the dead. After studying forensics, she assisted pathologists with post-mortems for years before becoming the curator of the world's most famous pathology museum. When it comes to death, she truly is an expert, and in this bookshe shares that expertise. Using the most common post-mortem process as the backbone of the narrative, The Chick and the Dead takes the reader through the process of an autopsy while also describing the history and changing cultures of our relationship with the dead. The book is full of vivid insight into what happens to our bodies in the end. Each chapter considers an aspect of an autopsy alongside an aspect of Carla's own life and work and touches on some of the more controversial aspects of our feelings towards death, including the relationship between sex and death and our attitudes toward human tissue collection. Starting with the first cut, we move from external examination into the body itself, discovering more about the heart, stomach and brain, and into dismembered and reconstructed bodies, at each stage taking a colorful detour into the question of what these things can teach us about the living. Join Carla on the journey from microscope-requesting nine-year-old to pathology educator and deathengager at a Victorian museum (a journey made via around 5,000 autopsies) as she tells the story of exactly what it's like to live a life immersed in death". 20170807. Valentine, Carla. Autopsy Case studies. Pathologists Biography. Forensic pathology Case studies. Case studies. Biographies.