Summary of Erika Engelhaupt's Gory Details

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 We all have a morbid curiosity about death. We fear the unknown, and death is the great unknown. We’ve devoted entire genres of art and literature to the subject, from horror movies to murder mysteries.
#2 The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore handles about 4,000 autopsies a year. The Forensic Medical Center was completed in 2010, and 16 examiners perform about 4,000 autopsies a year on cadavers from across the state.
#3 The autopsy process is a lot of work, with many details to attend to. When you watch people who do this work every day, it’s less shocking than it sounds.
#4 We all have a morbid curiosity about death, and it’s hard to stop. But we can learn more about what happens to our bodies after we die, which can be reassuring.

Sujets

• Life science
• Général

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 24 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669359586
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

We all have a morbid curiosity about death. We fear the unknown, and death is the great unknown. We’ve devoted entire genres of art and literature to the subject, from horror movies to murder mysteries.

#2

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore handles about 4,000 autopsies a year. The Forensic Medical Center was completed in 2010, and 16 examiners perform about 4,000 autopsies a year on cadavers from across the state.

#3

The autopsy process is a lot of work, with many details to attend to. When you watch people who do this work every day, it’s less shocking than it sounds.

#4

We all have a morbid curiosity about death, and it’s hard to stop. But we can learn more about what happens to our bodies after we die, which can be reassuring.

#5

The Judson family was part of a dollhouse-size crime scene built by Frances Glessner Lee, heir to International Harvester’s tractor and farm equipment fortune. She built 20 of these eerily accurate dioramas in the 1940s and ’50s, and they’re still used as teaching tools for detectives.

#6

The Nutshell models are still standing today, a testament to Lee’s contributions to forensic science. They are a physical reminder of her important contribution to American forensic science.

#7

I teamed up with psychologists Anthony Benicewicz and Anthony Oludoyi, a master’s degree student in forensic medicine, to solve the case. We spent hours examining the scene, reconstructing possible scenarios, and searching for clues.

#8

The Nutshells are not open to the public, but you can see photos of the interiors online. They are a part of an exhibit in 2017 by the Smithsonian Institution.

#9

The process of decomposition is what happens when you die and your immune system shuts down. Your body begins to decompose quickly when your immune system stops fighting off microbes.

#10

The same principle is used by forensic entomology, which studies the insects on a dead body. Flies are typically quick to land on a cadaver and lay eggs, and those eggs grow into maggots and then metamorphose into adult flies in a predictable time line.

#11

Scientists have found a pattern of bacteria growth on cadavers that is predictable enough to use as a time line after death. The same bacteria that are present in people with heart disease are present in the mouths of people who have died of heart disease after only 24 hours.

#12

The future of forensic science is going to be the unseen world, which is made up of microbes and chemical compounds produced by decomposing bodies.

#13

The most famous fact about the human microbiome is that there are about 10 to 1 as many microbes inside us as there are cells in our bodies. However, this is an estimate based on a 1970 paper by microbiologist Thomas D. Luckey, who estimated that each gram of human feces and intestinal fluid contains about 100 billion microbes.

#14

There have been many case reports of pets scavenging their dead owners, and it seems that cats are less likely to do this than dogs.

#15

It has been proven that dogs are descended from wolves, and are scavengers. They will eat whatever flesh is around if there is no source of food, and this often leads to them eating their owners.

#16

It is important to make sure that people will stop by if you don’t hear from your pets, as they may scavenge on your body after you die. Make sure to have people around you to keep you company.

#17

Dogs’ close bond with humans may make them more likely to eat us. If their distress leads them to lick us, and then eat us, we should just accept that sometimes, love bites.

#18

Until just a few centuries ago,