Abstract
These brief reports clearly show that contemporary forensic examination and analyses of material and specimens currently residing in museums may clarify historical questions that have been unanswered for many decades. Review of data may also provide graphic illustration of significant conditions and illnesses that are sometimes overlooked in the face of the far more dramatic aspects of armed conflict. Although administrators often fail to see the relevance of pathology museums, being more interested in dealing with costs than contributing to knowledge, historical forensic pathology has a distinct and important role to play in the contemporary multidisciplinary analysis of past events.
Highlights
Pathology is traditionally regarded as the study of injury and disease, and forensic pathology refers to those aspects of the discipline which apply to the law
Forensic pathologists over the world undertake much of the same types of activities, performing autopsies for legal authorities, attending crime scenes with law enforcement officers, compiling reports and preparing material for the evaluation in court [1,2]
“Preventive Pathology” is a name coined to explain the results of injury monitoring in infants and young children that has been carried out in Adelaide for several decades [3,4]
Summary
Pathology is traditionally regarded as the study of injury and disease, and forensic pathology refers to those aspects of the discipline which apply to the law. Forensic pathologists over the world undertake much of the same types of activities, performing autopsies for legal authorities, attending crime scenes with law enforcement officers, compiling reports and preparing material for the evaluation in court [1,2]. Additional activities include teaching university students and trainee pathologists, as well as undertaking research. The latter activity is fascinating, as the spectrum of research in forensic pathology is vast, ranging from simple case reports detailing unusual injuries or mechanisms of death, to much more elaborate laboratory-based genetic and animal studies
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