“The living always learn from the dead, starting with the earliest knowledge of human anatomy and ending with today’s forensic medicine and pathology.” Klaus Püschel, a forensic expert with 40 years of experience, is convinced that the dead not only teach the living—but also save them. For example, through autopsies, forensic experts solve crimes and develop more effective methods of treating diseases.
This book invites listeners to go with the author in search of evidence: to middle-class German apartments and into the exciting cosmos of the tiniest serial killers—bacteria and viruses. To find out what truly happened and prevent other people from unnatural death. You’ll find answers to questions:
• How can you determine the place of death from a corpse?
• By what signs can suicide be distinguished from murder?
• How does an autopsy help solve cases from decades ago?
• How can forensic medicine save an innocent person from a judicial error?
• What can the dead teach the living?
• How does dissection help develop more effective treatment methods?