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The chick and the dead : life and death behind mortuary doors / Carla Valentine. by Valentine, Carla, author. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017. Description:  xi, 287 pages ; 22 cm Edition:  First U.S. edition. Contents:  The first cut -- Information : 'Media most foul' -- Preparation : 'Grief encounters' -- Examination : 'Judging a book by its cover' -- Difficult and decomposed examinations : 'Pulp fiction' -- Penetration : 'Rose cottage' -- Thoracic block : 'Home isn't where the heart is' -- Abdominal block : 'Pickled punks' -- The head : 'Losing my head' -- Fragmented remains : 'Bitsa' -- Reconstruction : 'All the king's men' -- Chapel of rest : 'Sister act' -- The angel's share. Summary:  "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 book she 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 death engager 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"-- Genre:  Autobiographies Personal narratives   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Peosta Library Circulation Stacks 614.1 Val 2017 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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