Unclaimed body donation to science
Unclaimed body donation to science was once the primary source of cadavers for medical study. Despite increasing numbers of unclaimed bodies, that’s no longer the case.
July 20, 2023
Unclaimed body donation to science was once the primary source of cadavers for medical study. Despite increasing numbers of unclaimed bodies, that’s no longer the case.
Not all homicides are murders. The coroner decides if the manner of death is homicide. The criminal justice system decides if it’s a crime.
The dangers of medicolegal death investigation are many, yet there is little information about the occupational safety of last responders.
Many coroner and medical examiner offices — government agencies — don’t provide access to the local medicolegal death investigation data they generate.
The cause of death is the specific underlying disease or injury that initiated the chain of events leading to the death.
Cremation permanently destroys bodily evidence. There’s no body to exhume. There’s no bone or hair to test for DNA or
The Pennsylvania Center for Rural PA (CRP) released an in-depth report this week on the state’s medicolegal death investigation system.
Coroners often get calls from students — high school students — asking about what it takes to be a coroner.