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About the product Richard Shepherd is a leading UK forensic scientist with over 40 years of experience and has performed approximately 23,000 autopsies. He was recognized as the main expert on knives, participated as a forensic scientist in the investigation of high-profile cases of the 20th century, including the death of Princess Diana, the September 11 terrorist attack, and the cases of serial killers. Author of the book «Unnatural Causes». Death has become a lifelong profession for Richard Shepherd, and in this book he explores the subject from a completely unexpected and new perspective. He shows how vulnerability to death differs at every stage of human development from birth to old age, and explains why some causes of death are more likely at a certain age. Why do very young children usually die, and what is the outcome of a fight between young people? Could a sixty-year-old man recover from his injuries if he was younger? The author discusses how aging changes each of us and what happens to our bodies at every stage of life. “The new book by Richard Shepherd, The Seven Ages of Death, will be of interest to both professionals in the field of forensic medicine and forensic science, and to people far from medicine, but passionate about the topic of crime investigation. The reader will learn about high-profile, often unusual and confusing criminal cases, about the specifics of the work of a forensic medical expert both at the scene of the incident and directly at his workplace — in the sectional hall of the morgue. Along with this, the book contains many excursions into normal anatomy, physiology, pathogenesis of certain diseases and pathological conditions, set out in simple and understandable language. The personal experiences of the author, the parallels he has drawn through his life and work, make the book even more frank and interesting. » — RESHETUN ALEXEI, forensic scientist, author of books and blog @mossudmed Abstract Richard Shepherd, UK’s leading medical examiner and author of the bestselling book «Unnatural Causes», decided to talk again about what he understands best — about the relationship between life and death. But this time, the subject of his interest was age and those irreversible changes that occur to us as we age. In his new book, The Seven Ages of Death, Dr. Shepherd takes the reader on a journey through the different stages of life, from infancy to old age. And it shows what dangers await the human body on each of them. In addition to describing cases from practice, Richard Shepherd included explanations of various body systems and their characteristics in the book. You will learn why, at a certain age, some causes of death become more likely and if something can be done about it. This book has absorbed not only the many years of professional experience of its author, but also his personal experiences, thoughts about his own aging. As Dr. Shepherd notes in the foreword to it, «I will boldly face my aging and perhaps help readers to do the same.» …
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