Atlas of Forensic Pathology
An atlas designed as a basic text to assist non-forensic pathologists in recognizing and accurately describing the cause of common injuries. The text emphasizes common postmortem artifacts which can be misinterpreted as evidence of injury by an untrained examiner.
Descriptions are accompanied by black and white photographs from autopsies performed in blunt trauma injuries, assaults, child abuse, firearm and blast injury, asphyxial deaths, burns, drug overdose, electrical injury, and decomposition changes.
Atlas of Forensic Pathology Color Atlas of Forensic Pathology
All kinds of full color pictures of dead people. If you have been to any sites on the net that contain death pictures, chances are, a few of those pics came from this book.
Published in 1975 the book is out of print, although it is no longer available from the publisher, it may be available used.
Color Atlas of Forensic Pathology Color Atlas of the Autopsy
Very good book with over 500 full-color photographs taken from real autopsy tables in this guide to all aspects of the autopsy. The book explains step-by-step not only what is done in the process, but why and how.
Topics include external examination, internal examination, organ and tissue removal, examining individual organs, examining the head, skull, brain, and spinal cord, microscopic examination, and the laboratory analysis of drugs, chemicals, and microorganisms.
Color Atlas of the Autopsy Crime Album Stories:
Paris 1886-1902
Blow-by-blow account of some of the most sensational crimes to hit France in the late 1800s. The photo reproductions are marvelous if a bit horrifying to scrutinize.
What the author does is how she evokes the spirit or sense of the crime, crimes of passion, rage, botched robberies, abuse, with a mastery of wit, art, awe, and elegance. This is a book with many quiet surprises as well as bold, graphic images designed to shock.
Crime Album Stories Crime Scene and Evidence Photographer's Guide
Designed to be a field reference for those responsible for photography at the crime scene. It may be used by law enforcement officers, investigators, and crime scene technicians.
Contains instructions for photographing a variety of crimes scenes and various types of evidence. Also a helpful resource for students and others interested in entering into the field of crime scene investigation.
Designed to be carried in an evidence kit or camera bag, this 66 page, 5 by 8 publication contains step-by-step instructions for photographing crime scenes and evidence. It includes 42 example photographs, eight diagrams, and three tables.
Crime Scene and Evidence Death Scenes:
A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook
Based on a scrapbook collected by a homicide detective with the LAPD from the 1930s to the 1950s, this work recalls film noir-era crimes such as the Black Dahlia Mystery and the Lipstick Murder, as well as on-site forensic photos, mug shots, and previously unreleased photos from such sensational cases as the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and the Valentine's Day massacre.
Death Scenes Forensic Pathology (Color Guide)
A text book for people studying forensics. Lots of full color pictures will make this a book most sick minds will love. Chapters include; the death scene, wounds, animal attacks, infant deaths, child deaths, drowning, sex deaths, fire deaths, and a lot more.
Forensic Pathology (Color Guide) Forensic Pathology, Second Edition
A medicolegal textbook by the Chief Medical Examiner for a Texas county, and the retired Chief Medical Examiner of New York City. Medicolegal investigation of death is the most crucial and significant function of the medical examiner within the criminal justice system.
The medical examiner is primarily concerned with violent, sudden, unexpected, and suspicious deaths. She or he is responsible for determining the cause of death, identifying the deceased, determining time of death, collecting evidence, issuing the death certificate, and among other things, documenting these events.
In this book, they consider such topics as the time of death, blunt trauma wounds, craniocerebral injuries, airplane crashes, and more.
Forensic Pathology, Second Edition Forensic Pathology:
An Overview
Paperback by Kenneth Alonso, a physician who as the Director of the Community Clinical Oncology Program at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta.
Not a picture book but lots of information about forensic pathology. Chapters include crime scene investigation, blunt force injury, knife wounds, gun wounds, burns, child abuse, rape, drugs, and others.
Forensic Pathology: An Overview Guide to Forensic Pathology
Provides a concise overview of forensic pathology to those who wish to know the basics but lack formal forensic training. Both fascinating and practical, this book explains everything from who the experts are in death investigation and what their roles are to how effective testimonies are presented in court.
Includes case studies, advice on testifying, frequently asked questions, a glossary of medical terms, guidelines for the death scene investigator, as well as information on determining the time and manner of death, identifying the victim, and forensic DNA testing. Although it is not primarily a picture book it contains some photographs.
Though intended for death investigators, the book will be useful to medical students, pathology residents, pathologists, coroners, medical examiners, homicide detectives, and others interested in the subject.
Guide to Forensic Pathology Police Pictures:
The Photograph As Evidence
In the 150 years since its emergence, photography has become a primary police tool. Filled with mug shots, scenes of the crime, blood drenched victims, and other gruesome evidence, police pictures explores both the manipulation of images and the policing function of photography. Published in conjunction with a San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibit. Over 120 full-color and duotone images.
Police Pictures
Other Stuff
A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities
Bondeson brings a physician's diagnostic skills to 10 examples of extraordinary aspects of the history of medicine, offering modern medical explanations for spontaneous human combustion, frogs and snakes living in a person's stomach, tribes of tailed men, the Two Headed Boy of Bengal, and Julia Pastrana, the Ape Woman.
He discusses the life histories of these human anomalies, and traces past research and speculation on them to draw contemporary conclusions. Includes b&w photos.
--Book News, Inc.
A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities A Morning's Work:
Medical Photographs from the
Burns Archive and Collection, 1843-1939
This is by far one of the best books out there depicting photographs of human anomalies, surgical procedures and things of the like during the early 20th century.
If each picture is worth a thousand words, then this book could be an encyclopedia. A must buy for every person interested in human abnormalities. Not for the easily squeamish!
A Morning's Work Freakery:
Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body
Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The disabled. The very hirsute. For the price of a ticket, freak shows offered spectators an icon of bodily otherness whose difference from them secured their own membership in a common American identity.
Probes America's disposition toward the visually different. The book's essays fall into four main categories: historical explorations of American freak shows in the era of P.T. Barnum; the articulation of the freak in literary and textual discourses; analyses of freak culture.
Traces the freak show from antiquity to the modern period. A fresh, insightful exploration of a heretofore neglected aspect of American mass culture.
Freakery Freaks:
We Who Are Not As Others
Based on Mannix's personal acquaintance with sideshow stars such as the Alligator Man and the Monkey Woman, etc. Read all about the notorious love affairs of midgets; the amazing story of the elephant boy; the unusual amours of Jolly Daisy; the fat woman; the famous pinhead who inspired Verdi's Rigoletto.
The tragedy of Betty Lou Williams and her parasitic twin; the black midget, only 34 inches tall, who was happily married to a 264-pound wife; the human torso who could sew, crochet and type; and bizarre accounts of normal humans turned into freaks-either voluntarily or by evil design! 88 astonishing photographs and additional material from the author's personal collection.
Freaks Freaks (The Movie)
This movie stars real freaks who were in sideshows at the time (1932). It's the story of a trapeze artist who seduces and marries a midget in the circus sideshow, hoping that she will inherit his wealth.
But in doing so, she has crossed the wrong folks, a group of real life circus freaks so disgustingly disfigured you will think they were wearing make up.
The appearance of the freaks in this movie is so shocking, it was severely cut in the US, and banned in the UK, for 30 years. This is the full sickening version (released in 1932).
Freaks (VHS Format) Freaks (DVD Format) Freak Show:
Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit
This book is a book that tells you about the ins and outs of how the freakshows started and profited. If you like freak shows, you'll enjoy reading about oddities and learning how they were brought about into the public eye.
The author does an excellent job of writing about freak shows in their historical context. Even though written as sociological qualitative research, the lay person can read and enjoy this book.
Freak Show Gods of Earth and Heaven
Here you will encounter hermaphrodites, malformed bodies, Siamese twins, corpses, fetuses, cut-off heads, and self-torturers. This exquisitely produced collection of black and white photographs will take you, into a human afterworld.
Gods of Earth and Heaven Harm's Way:
Lust and Madness, Murder and Mayhem
A partial listing of photo journalistic topics: physical prodigies of all kinds, pinheads, dwarfs, giants, hunchbacks, pre-op transsexuals, anyone with a parasitic twin, twins sharing the same arm or leg, living Cyclops, people with tails, horns, wings, fins, claws, reversed feet or hands, elephantine limbs, etc. Anyone with additional arms, legs, eyes, breasts, ears, nose, lips.
Harm's Way Jay's Journal of Anomalies:
Conjurers, Cheats, Hustlers, Hoaxsters,
Pranksters, Jokesters, Imposters, Pretenders,
Side-Show Showmen, Armless Calligraphers,
Mechanical Marvels, Popular Entertainments
Ricky Jay, author, magician, and actor presents a survey of strange entertainments through the ages. A good looking oversized book with charming period woodcuts and engravings, amazing tales of very strange human endeavors.
A superb book stuffed with bizarre topics like conjurers, cheats, hustlers, hoaxers, pranksters, sideshow showmen, armless calligraphers, mechanical marvels, popular entertainments, and other weird stuff.
Jay's Journal of Anomalies Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women
This book profiles some of the most unusual entertainers of all times: calculating pigs and acrobatic horses, stone eaters, poison resisters, daredevils, mind readers, and more.
The contents of this meticulously researched and lovingly presented book often boggle the mind, inducing, at times, a wonderment that is nearly stupefying. Profusely illustrated with contemporary broadsides, lithographs, and photographs.
Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women Medical Curiosities:
A Miscellany of Medical Oddities, Horrors and Humors
This remarkable collection of true medical stories contains more than 200 varied accounts, illuminated by Dr. Youngson's lifetime experience in clinical medicine.
Sometimes plausible, occasionally incredible, these stories include life-saving therapies involving bacon, toads, and other strange items; the often extreme limitations of medical science and training; myriad weird symptoms, and more.
Medical Curiosities Side Show:
My Life With Geeks, Freaks
& Vagabonds in the Carny Trade
The author spent most of his life working in carnival side shows. The narrative is like a conversation that sketches his career, from luring audiences to watch acts to his stints in athletic shows, where he would fight anyone who volunteered to enter the ring.
He also appeared in various torture acts and even performed a dash of magic. A broke bum when he joined his first side show, Bone died in a dreary V.A. hospital as a broke old man. He had few friends who lasted longer than a carny circuit, and he abandoned a wife and three children along the way. This is a narrative, not a picture book.
Side Show Sideshow U.S.A:
Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination
A book that explores the freak. Chapters include the freak over the centuries, carnival performers, people with disabilities, people who blur gender conventions, and more.
This smart, academic book is a natural for students of the sociology of deviance, but it should have a life outside of academic circles, too. It has the quirkiness to receive substantial mainstream press attention.
Sideshow U.S.A (softcover) Sideshow U.S.A (hardcover) The Bone House
Painful yet strangely beautiful images force the reader to re-evaluate those people often stereotyped as freaks and outcasts.
The work is deeply symbolic, yet is immediately satisfying for those de-sensitized enough to endure the grotesque nature of his visions. It is 196 pages, with 92 four-color plates.
--metallynx@aol.com
The Bone House The Two-Headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels
Written by author/physician Jan Bondeson, this book is a sensitive, humane discourse on cases in teratology (the study of congenital malformations). Dr. Bondeson never loses sight of his subjects' humanity and focuses on the wondrous aspect of teratology.
Well written and meticulously researched. He discusses teratology cases from the Middle Ages through the Victorian Era, often providing contemporaneous illustrations and an occasional photograph.
The book reads like a good mystery novel with Dr. Bondeson as the detective offering alternative medical explanations for accounts which, otherwise, would seem questionable if not outright incredible.
The Two-Headed Boy... Witkin
At the age of 6, Joel-Peter Witkin witnessed an automobile accident in which a little girl was decapitated, her head rolling to a stop at his feet.
This experience may have had a bearing on his lifelong obsession with the macabre, but does little to prepare the viewer for his bizarre photographs of hermaphrodites and other human grotesqueries.
Witkin