In 13 papers, contributors examine special topics from various fields of forensic pathology and death scene investigations, including common pathological entities as well as some rarely seen. Their topics include the diagnostic criteria of death as the result of starvation, skull injuries caused by blows with glass bottles, primary cerebral neoplasms as a cause of sudden death, diagnostic issues of infant and early childhood asphyxiation deaths, complex and occupation-related suicides, a survey of methods for postmortem diagnosis of viral myocarditis, human primitive behavior in death scene investigation, anthropods and corpses in forensic entomology, practical toxicology, long-term effects of steroid abuse, and subendocardial hemorrhages in forensic differential diagnosis. Illustrated with autopsy and crime scene photographs. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)