The Resource The chick and the dead : life and death behind mortuary doors, Carla Valentine
The chick and the dead : life and death behind mortuary doors, Carla Valentine
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Resource Information
The item The chick and the dead : life and death behind mortuary doors, Carla Valentine represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- Carla Valentine works with the dead. After studying forensics, she assisted pathologists with post-mortems for years before becoming the curator of the world's most famous pathology museum. When it comes to death, she truly is an expert, and in this book she shares that expertise. Using the most common post-mortem process as the backbone of the narrative, The Chick and the Dead takes the reader through the process of an autopsy while also describing the history and changing cultures of our relationship with the dead
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- xi, 287 pages
- Contents
-
- The first cut
- Information : 'Media most foul'
- Preparation : 'Grief encounters'
- Examination : 'Judging a book by its cover'
- Difficult and decomposed examinations : 'Pulp fiction'
- Penetration : 'Rose cottage'
- Thoracic block : 'Home isn't where the heart is'
- Abdominal block : 'Pickled punks'
- The head : 'Losing my head'
- Fragmented remains : 'Bitsa'
- Reconstruction : 'All the king's men'
- Chapel of rest : 'Sister act'
- The angel's share
- Isbn
- 9781250120687
- Label
- The chick and the dead : life and death behind mortuary doors
- Title
- The chick and the dead
- Title remainder
- life and death behind mortuary doors
- Statement of responsibility
- Carla Valentine
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Carla Valentine works with the dead. After studying forensics, she assisted pathologists with post-mortems for years before becoming the curator of the world's most famous pathology museum. When it comes to death, she truly is an expert, and in this book she shares that expertise. Using the most common post-mortem process as the backbone of the narrative, The Chick and the Dead takes the reader through the process of an autopsy while also describing the history and changing cultures of our relationship with the dead
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Valentine, Carla
- Dewey number
- 614/.1
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- RA1063.4
- LC item number
- .V35 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- WZ 100
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Valentine, Carla
- Forensic pathology
- Pathologists
- Autopsy
- Label
- The chick and the dead : life and death behind mortuary doors, Carla Valentine
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The first cut -- Information : 'Media most foul' -- Preparation : 'Grief encounters' -- Examination : 'Judging a book by its cover' -- Difficult and decomposed examinations : 'Pulp fiction' -- Penetration : 'Rose cottage' -- Thoracic block : 'Home isn't where the heart is' -- Abdominal block : 'Pickled punks' -- The head : 'Losing my head' -- Fragmented remains : 'Bitsa' -- Reconstruction : 'All the king's men' -- Chapel of rest : 'Sister act' -- The angel's share
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- xi, 287 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250120687
- Lccn
- 2017004248
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- ocn974612219
- (OCoLC)974612219
- Label
- The chick and the dead : life and death behind mortuary doors, Carla Valentine
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The first cut -- Information : 'Media most foul' -- Preparation : 'Grief encounters' -- Examination : 'Judging a book by its cover' -- Difficult and decomposed examinations : 'Pulp fiction' -- Penetration : 'Rose cottage' -- Thoracic block : 'Home isn't where the heart is' -- Abdominal block : 'Pickled punks' -- The head : 'Losing my head' -- Fragmented remains : 'Bitsa' -- Reconstruction : 'All the king's men' -- Chapel of rest : 'Sister act' -- The angel's share
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- xi, 287 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250120687
- Lccn
- 2017004248
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- ocn974612219
- (OCoLC)974612219
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