Essays on Autopsy

Health is an important aspect of human life. As such, it should be treated with utmost seriousness. Some cultural beliefs and customs, however, may affect healthcare delivery. Though legal, some of these beliefs may have negative medical effects on the society and a medico-legal professional will have to know how to cope with such cases (Hartley, 2012). This paper will analyze how to deal with such beliefs that medico-legal professional might encounter. Such beliefs and customs are usually based on the religion affiliations of those concerned. Examples include the negativity towards autopsy in some religions and appraisal of the ...

Organ transplants have become a crucial life-saving issue since the first successful one in 1954. Many people have had their organs donated to other people. For instance, some donate a kidney and function with one. In most cases, donation of all other vital organs is made on a dead individual if the organs are viable. In this case, a touching story of a man from Georgia, Garry Phebus, who has made an offer of donating his organs has hit the headlines. He has battled amyotrophic lateral sclerosis since 2008, and he came to a decision that he wanted to ...

A sudden child death is death in an infant which occurs precipitously and unexpectedly. The causes of most sudden child deaths are often not immediately evident to prior investigation. This is due to the fact that it takes less disease to kill an infant than it would take to kill an adult (PBS, 2011). A child can die as a result of a pre-existing medical condition. However, medical practitioners have always found it very difficult to find a link between a sudden child death and the child’s pre-existing medical condition. Hence, when medical examiners fail to diagnose a ...

When examining someone’s corpse, it can be difficult to determine the cause of death and whether or not it was natural. This can prove especially challenging considering all of the underfunded coroners’ offices and morgues in the country (Frontline, 2011). In fact, these offices are so underfunded that there is often not enough room for them to store their corpses in refrigerator units thus limiting the amount of time the coroners have to perform an autopsy (Frontline, 2011). Therefore it is not surprising that in some cases the cause of death is determined by an official who was ...

INTRODUCTION

In human society there have always been laws and lawbreakers. Police were designed to protect the public from the dangerous offenders who might steal from them, harm them or kill them. The idea was that police were to be a positive inclusion in American cities, towns and neighborhoods. In some cases and some places they are exactly that. However, over the last few years there have been more and more instances where police have committed acts of unnecessary force, extreme violence and, unfortunately, including the use of deadly force in cases where their actions and motivation are being questioned ...

Introduction

SBS or Shaken Baby Syndrome is a major brain injury that results from forceful shaking of a toddler or infant. Shaken Baby Syndrome is a result of direct blow/s to a child’s head due to throwing or dropping, or sometimes shaking a child. Since, infants’ anatomy puts them at risk for injury from such actions; several victims of SBS are under 1 year old. The autopsy reveals several details such as the presence of white matter contusion tears, diffuse axonal injury, subdural hematoma, and galeal skull fracture, contusion on the front skull and a linear skull fracture. But, ...

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“Institution Affiliation” Striated abrasions from a knife with non-serrated blade—identification of the instrument of crime on the basis of an experiment with material evidence The study “Striated abrasions from a knife with non-serrated blade” explores a homicide case where knife seized is considered material evidence. In the case, a number of attackers assault a man who eventually dies from inflicted injuries (Kaliszan et al, 2011). A postmortem reveals that the cause of his death was massive hemorrhage arising from stab wounds sustained by the individual in the parts of abdomen and chest. He also succumbed to damage to ...

In order to conduct a decent forensic expertise, a professional has to understand that there is a difference between asphyxia, suicidal asphyxia, and strangulation, as they have different symptoms and causes. In general, asphyxia is the lack of oxygen supply to tissues or organs. Asphyxia is a general definition, which includes several types of it – suffocation, hanging, and strangulation (Rao, 2016). Determination as to whether it is accidental or suicidal asphyxia and strangulation one would have to view closely the specific details of the action. Based on the definition, accidental asphyxia means that someone is being in place with ...

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Tache noir

Tache noir is a skin condition that occurs at the posterior edge. It can manifest itself on the surface of either heels or one. It is significant since it shows the early signs of postmortem ocular. For example, the condition aid in autopsy during the medical examination to find the cause of death. b.

Tardieu spot

This is critical in assisting to establish if the death person was strangled or asphyxiated. It is significant during autopsy as it displays the tissues of the person and indicates if they were squeezed on pressed hard causing death. For example, it is a ...

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Discussion 3 What the Advocates of Privacy Say 4 What the Advocates of Public Possession Say 5 Conclusions 6

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Abstract Autopsy is one of the most sensitive issues in the today’s law enforcement agenda. Thus, despite the fact that the foundations of the rights to privacy of a victim and the relatives are strongly protected in the United States of America, several recent reports found that post-mortem autopsy photos is a powerful solution for refuting wrongful official conclusions. In other words, while the proponents of a public disclosure system are vigorously advocating the idea that the ‘public ...

<Institution Name> The news article chosen by me discusses murder and rape committed as an act of violence against an innocent woman. The crime covers one of the most serious acts of violence that can be committed against humanity because it is a crime which goes against decency and humanity. According to the story, the rapist murdered a woman and then murdered her, while dumping her body at a distance from the beach. Rape is defined as sexual assault against a person, which can involve sexual intercourse and sexual penetration of any sort to a non-consenting party, against ...

1. The Retail Failure Case 1.1. Introduction Current report sets out to discuss and analyzes one of the greatest failures in the sector of delivery and logistic services. City Link had been a big courier company headquartered in Coventry, UK. It was founded in 1969 and after 45 years of presence in the market, it went into administration in January 2015. The company announced its intention to enter administration on the Christmas Day in 2014 after clearing all its Christmas deliveries and it was a shocking as well as bad news for its above 2500 employees working in its ...

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This research established in the article sought to explain the issue of marriage regarding Chinese rural young women and to give the grounds if the issue served as a risk or protective factor for their suicide. The analysis included a brief summary of the main ideas of the article, the purpose of the research, key findings and consequences of the results. Moreover, the major theoretical perspective to clarify the findings was based on Emile Durkheim’s social integration theory of suicide which highlights sources of people’s social support. The observations allowed ...