position:pathologist

  • Why Evolution Is Ageist - Issue 46 : Balance
    http://nautil.us/issue/46/balance/why-evolution-is-ageist

    Every time he bent over a freshly dead body, pathologist George Martin pondered the diversity before him. Although his cadavers almost always belonged to the elderly, they varied dramatically. One would have intestines pocked by polyps. Another’s arteries were plugged with plaque. Variety even existed within the same types of disease. For instance, the location of beta amyloid deposits in the brain of people who’d suffered from Alzheimer’s differed significantly. If each type of malady shared the identical underlying cause, bodies ravaged by that cause should look similar in death. But they didn’t. “I never saw two people who had aged in the same way,” Martin says. Martin read everything he could on aging. He took particular interest in observations showing how organisms ranging from clonal (...)

  • When a Drowned Woman’s Face Became the Muse of Paris
    http://hyperallergic.com/332941/inconnue-seine-muse-paris


    Death mask of #L’Inconnue_de_la_Seine (1900 photograph)
    (via Wikimedia)

    One of the most popular muses of early-20th-century Paris was a drowned woman. The face of “L’Inconnue de la Seine” (“The Unknown Woman of the Seine”) was a fashionable fixture of salons and studios, her enigmatic expression of a slight smile and closed eyes haunted by stories of her suicide. It was said the death mask, replicated in these endless copies, was made at the Paris morgue between 1898 and 1900, by a pathologist struck by the beauty of this corpse pulled from the Seine river.

    You may have seen her face yourself, even kissed those lips. For what makes the story of the Inconnue even stranger is her 1950s use as the model for a CPR training device. #Resusci_Anne is still produced by Laerdal Medical, which includes the tale of her Seine suicide on its website, adding she’s now “a symbol of life to the millions of people throughout the world who have learned the lifegiving technique of modern resuscitation, and to those whose lives she has helped save from unnecessary death.


    Vintage version of Resusci Anne
    (photo by aorta/Flickr)

  • Palestinian teen killed by bullet to head, despite Israeli police denial
    Israeli pathologists who performed autopsy said to agree; death of Mohammed Sunuqrut, 16, has sparked violent protests in capital’s eastside.
    By Nir Hasson | Sep. 12, 2014Haaretz
    http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.615433

    The Palestinian teenager who died Sunday of injuries incurred during a demonstration in East Jerusalem could only have been killed by a plastic or sponge-tipped bullet, not by a fall as police have claimed, according to Israeli and Palestinian sources.

    Mohammed Sunuqrut, 16, was seriously injured during a demonstration in the Wadi Joz neighborhood on August 31. His family claimed he was shot in the head at close range with a rubber-coated bullet. But police insisted he had been shot in the leg, causing him to fall and hit his head on the pavement.

    After he died, his family commissioned a Palestinian pathologist, Dr. Saber al-Aloul, to attend the autopsy, which was performed at Israel’s Institute of Forensic Medicine in Abu Kabir. According to Aloul, Sunuqrut died of a fractured skull and cerebral hemorrhage from the projectile fired from less than 10 meters away, said sources close to the Palestinian pathologist who performed the autopsy.

    The Israeli pathologist who conducted the autopsy has not yet published his report. But Israeli sources agreed the boy’s fatal injury was caused by a nonmetal bullet rather than a fall, based on both the size of the wound and the nature of the fracture. The autopsy report has not yet been released.

  • What killed Arafat Jaradat ? -
    Qui peut douter que la torture est une pratique « normale » dans les prisons israéliennes ?

    Haaretz
    http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/what-killed-arafat-jaradat.premium-1.506629

    The Palestinian pathologist who participated in the autopsy told the family members that he had no doubt that Arafat Jaradat did not die as a result of a heart attack, as Israel had tried to claim.

    In Sa’ir this week, they asked why a detainee who was suspected of the relatively minor offense of throwing stones during the course of Operation Pillar of Defense, in November, was taken from his home in the middle of the night a few months after he committed the offense - straight to a Shin Bet security service interrogation facility at Jalameh.

    Is it possible that a person suspected of a relatively minor offense was tortured to death under interrogation? Did he really die in the solitary confinement cell at Megiddo Prison, or had he been transferred there after his death in Jalameh in order to blur the fact that he had died under interrogation, as his family suspects? There are even those in Sa’ir who are convinced Israel wanted to kill him.

    The last person to see Jaradat alive, apart from his interrogators and jailers, was attorney Kamil Sabbagh of Nazareth, from the public defender’s office. He met his client for the first time in the Samaria Military Court in Jalameh on Thursday, February 21, two days before he died.

  • BBC News - Dr Freddy Patel : G20 pathologist suspension extended

    A pathologist who gave disputed evidence at the inquest into a man’s death after G20 protests has been suspended for a further five months.

    Freddy Patel said newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson, who collapsed at protests in 2009, died of natural causes.

    The jury at the inquest into his death disagreed however, and returned an unlawful killing verdict.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-16009747