Estimation of the Time Since Death

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Contents
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Editor Biography
List of Contributors
1 General Remarks on Estimating the Time Since Death
2 Historical Review on Early Work on Estimating the Time Since Death
3 Supravitality in Tissues
4 Rigor Mortis: Estimation of the Time Since Death by Evaluation of Cadaveric Rigidity
5 Post-mortem Lividity: Hypostasis and Timing of Death
6 Post-mortem Body Cooling and Temperature-Based Methods
	6.1 Basics and Application of the ‘Nomogram Method’ at the Scene
	6.2 Finite Element Method in Temperature-Based Death Time Determination
	6.3 The Prism Method
	6.4 The Use of Temperatures Recorded from the External Auditory Canal for the Estimation of the Post-mortem Intervalt
	6.5 Eye Temperature and the Time Since Death
7 Autolysis, Putrefactive Changes and Post-mortem Chemistry
	7.1 Autolysis (Self-digestion)
	7.2a Eye Changes After Death
	7.2b Potassium Levels Combined with Age and Temperature
	7.2c Estimation of Time Since Death Based on Vitreous Humour Hypoxanthine and Temperature Measurement
	7.3 Cerebrospinal Fluid Chemistry
	7.4 Estimation of Duration of Immersion
	7.5 H3-Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
	7.6 Post-mortem Protein Degradation
8 DNA/RNA Degradation and Time Since Death
9 Gastric Contents and Time Since Death
10 Immunohistochemical Methods as an Aid in Estimating the Time Since Death
11 Practical Casework
	11.1 Integration of Different Methods in Casework
	11.2 Conditional Probability in Death Time Estimation
12 Forensic Entomology
13 Radiocarbon Dating: Basic Principles and Applications
14 Cross-Sectional Imaging and the Post-mortem Interval
15 Drug Testing in Hair for the Estimation of the Time Since Death
Index