Today, the living need the dead. Analyzing a prehistoric amputation, an Egyptian mummy, a Greek cremation, a Roman trepanation, a medieval rotting pit, or Maori tattoos with a scalpel or microscope allows us to establish the health records of subject ...
Today, the living need the dead. Analyzing a prehistoric amputation, an Egyptian mummy, a Greek cremation, a Roman trepanation, a medieval rotting pit, or Maori tattoos with a scalpel or microscope allows us to establish the health records of subjects who died several centuries, or even several millennia ago...
Many of these patients are anonymous, others have left a trace in History: Foulques Nerra, Richard the Lionheart, Agnès Sorel, Diane de Poitiers, Henri IV, Robespierre, etc. Thanks to new techniques in forensic medicine and anthropology, we can now identify the diseases and causes of death of these patients from the past: poisoning or natural death? Tumor or malformation? Suicide or covered-up crime?
From Prehistory to the 19th century, Doctor Philippe Charlier takes us on a fascinating scientific and cultural journey across the planet. As a "doctor of the dead", he lifts the veil on the fantastic progress of a science serving patients like no other.
Preface by Professor Bernard Proust
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