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Autopsies for the armchair enthusiast, my strange encounters with death as a country medical examiner, Dr Meryl Broughton

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Autopsies for the armchair enthusiast, my strange encounters with death as a country medical examiner, Dr Meryl Broughton

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eng

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Includes bibliographical resources

resource.biographical

autobiography

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Autopsies for the armchair enthusiast

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bibliography

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Dr Meryl Broughton

Sub title

my strange encounters with death as a country medical examiner

Summary

For over 35 years Dr Meryl Broughton has been a keeper of secrets. But while there is a special group of patients whose voices can no longer be heard, their tales can teach so much and deserve a wider audience than the autospy room. The ultimate medical examination and strangest of encounters is the autopsy, that mysterious procedure strategically positioned between death and the grave. It is a sort of biography of the body that increasingly few people get the opportunity to see, and in Autopsies for the Armchair Enthusiast, Meryl provides a virtual tour. The insights she offers are a unique and compelling, and are not only encouragement to look after one's own health, but to be amazed by the inticacies of the human body. This fascinating account of Meryl's passion for performing post-mortems involves pickled brains, dungeons, zombies, maggots, outsides, insides, blood and guts. A lot of guts. It also touches on the often seemingly obvious causes of death which turn out to be not so obvious after all. Even in death, people are cause for wonder, puzzlement and surprise. Illustrated by true stories based on real cases, Meryl's wry tone and unexpected sense of humour delights as it draws the reader in. As Meryl says of her autopsy cases: 'We should not miss the chance to learn about ourselves from what happened to them.'

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