The Chick and the Dead

A mortician explains the autopsy process—and what it can teach us about the living—with “a morbidly galloping parade of every possible kind of dead body” ( New York Times ). 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