The Dead Can Save Us. How the Autopsy of One Person Can Save Thousands of Lives

«The living always learn from the dead, starting from the earliest knowledge in 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. Thus, thanks to autopsies of the dead, forensic experts solve crimes and develop more effective methods of treating diseases.
This book invites readers to join the author in the search for evidence: in middle-class German apartments and in the fascinating cosmos of the smallest serial killers — bacteria and viruses. To find out what really happened and to protect others from unnatural death.
You will find answers to the questions:
• How can you determine the place of death from a corpse?
• What signs can distinguish suicide from murder?
• How does an autopsy help solve cases from decades ago?
• How can forensic medicine save an innocent person from wrongful conviction?
• What can the dead teach the living?
• How does an autopsy aid in developing more effective treatment methods?