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Insecta --- Insecta --- Death --- Death --- postmortem changes --- postmortem changes --- Biodegradation. --- Biodegradation --- medical sciences --- medical sciences --- legislation. --- legislation --- Médecine légale

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Entomology --- Entomology --- Insecta --- Insecta --- medical sciences --- medical sciences --- Postmortem examination --- Postmortem examination --- ecological succession --- ecological succession --- Death --- Death --- Biodegradation. --- Biodegradation --- postmortem changes --- postmortem changes

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Autopsy --- Dementia --- Postmortem changes --- Dementia --- Dementia --- Dementia --- Pathogenesis --- complications --- etiology --- pathology

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"The fate of the human body after death is a subject that has fascinated enquirers, both in the scientific and legal realms for millennia. However, objective research into the causes and nature of human decomposition has only taken place in the last two centuries, with quantitative measurement of the process as a means of estimating the time of death has only recently being attempted. The substantial literature concerning this research has been published in numerous scientific journals since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Human Body Decomposition expands on the current literature to include the evolving research on estimating time of death. This volume details the process of decomposition to include the early period after death when the body cools to ambient temperature, and when the body begins to putrefy. This process is significant because the estimation of the time of death becomes increasingly more difficult when the body begins to putrefy."--

Human decomposition. --- Forensic anthropology. --- Anthropology, Forensic --- Medicolegal anthropology --- Forensic sciences --- Physical anthropology --- Dead --- Human beings --- Human body --- Biodegradation --- Postmortem changes --- Anthropology

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In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers the first scientific explanation for the origins of the vampire legends. From the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires, his book is fascinating reading. "This study's comprehensiveness and the author's bone-dry wit make this compelling reading, not just for folklorists, but for anyone interested in a time when the dead wouldn't stay dead."-Booklist "Barber's inquiry into vampires, fact and fiction, is a gem in the literature of debunking... [and] a convincing exercise in mental archaeology."-Roy Porter, Nature "A splendid book about the undead, illuminated by the findings of morbid anatomy.... The main value of this most interesting book is to remind us how far we have come in our ability to explain the world and how this has released us from at least some terrors."-Anthony Daniels, Spectator "This book is fascinating reading for physicians and anthropologists as well as anyone interested in folklore."-R. Ted Steinbock, M.D., Journal of the American Medical Association "A fascinating and pain-staking (sorry!) thesis, which welds together folklore, epidemic panic, communal stupidity, and forensic and funereal science."-Huw Knight, New Scientist

Vampires. --- Postmortem changes --- Dead --- Change, Postmortem --- Change after death --- Changes, Postmortem --- Changes after death --- Post-mortem changes --- Death (Biology) --- Decomposition (Chemistry) --- Lesbian vampires --- Monsters --- Dead (in religion, folk-lore, etc.)