Past Mortems

Life and death behind mortuary doors

Carla Valentine (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2018
Sphere (Verlag)
978-0-7515-6534-8 (ISBN)

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Let Carla Valentine, mortician and curator - the mistress of death and high queen of the specimen jar - tell the truth about, in her words: 'exactly what happens when the mortuary doors swing shut or the lid of the coffin closes.'

A day in the life of Carla Valentine - curator, pathology technician and 'death professional' - is not your average day. She spent ten years training and working as an Anatomical Pathology Technologist: where the mortuary slab was her desk, and that day's corpses her task list. Past Mortems tells Carla's stories of those years, as well as investigating the body alongside our attitudes towards death - shedding light on what the living can learn from dead and the toll the work can take on the living souls who carry it out. Fascinating and insightful, Past Mortems reveals the truth about what happens when the mortuary doors swing shut or the lid of the coffin closes ...

Carla Valentine works with the dead: she's your average chick who just happens to know as much about corpses as she does cocktails. After studying forensics, Carla assisted pathologists with post-mortems for years, before eventually becoming the Technical Curator of the world's most famous pathology museum. When it comes to death, she truly is a world-class expert.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2018
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 196 mm
Gewicht	250 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Palliativpflege / Sterbebegleitung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-7515-6534-2 / 0751565342
ISBN-13	978-0-7515-6534-8 / 9780751565348
Zustand	Neuware