scholarly journals Workplace safety concerns in medico-legal death investigations related to COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 247-253
Author(s):  
Rijen Shrestha ◽  
Kewal Krishan ◽  
Tanuj Kanchan
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Risk Of Exposure ◽  
Dead Bodies ◽  
The Dead

The personnel involved in the management of COVID-19 affected dead bodies, including law enforcement personnel at the scene of crime, personnel involved in transportation of the dead bodies, forensic practitioners, autopsy pathologists, mortuary personnel, as well as the family members of the dead, etc. are at risk of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Post-mortem examination is a high-risk procedure, considering that it involves aerosol generating procedures, and exposure to body fluids. The safety of the forensic practitioners and support staff in the management of suspected or confirmed COVID-19 deaths hence, is of extreme importance, especially in the absence of pre-autopsy testing for COVID-19 and due to non-availability of adequate first-hand medical history of the deceased. This communication aims to highlight the current practices and advises certain guidelines in ensuring occupational health and safety in view of these risks in medico-legal death investigations.

JEFFREY A. NEDOROSCIK, The City of the Dead: A History of Cairo's Cemetery Communities (Westport, Conn.: Bergin and Garvey, 1997). Pp. 140.

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 574-575
Author(s):  
Camilla Gibb
Keyword(s):  
Housing Sector ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
Informal Housing ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Dead ◽  
A Site ◽  
The City

Jeffrey Nedoroscik's book is a sensitive sociological survey of life in Cairo's City of the Dead, where more than 500,000 people are now enlisted to reside. In an attempt to both demystify and account for this phenomenon, Nedoroscik argues that life in the City of the Dead is as old, and as rich, as life in Cairo itself. Today, residence in and among the family tombs stretching across some five square miles at the base of the muqattam Hills, constitutes an informal housing sector that has developed as a response to Cairo's severe housing crisis. Historically, though, the cemetery also teemed with life as a religious center housing some of the Muslim world's most important monuments, and a site of temporary and permanent shelter to relatives to the deceased, guardians of tombs, itinerants, the poor, the sick, Sufis, and other religious leaders.

Ancestor Propitiation Ceremonies in Sukumaland, Tanganyika

Africa ◽  
1958 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. E. S. Tanner
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Line ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Opening Paragraph

Opening ParagraphThe Sukuma, like many other African peoples, believe that the living and the dead are a continuous line, in which death is not an end but only a transformation within the history of the family. The lack of children means physical and spiritual extinction, since the ancestor spirits depend for their survival on remembrance in the minds of their descendants. The unity of the living and the dead is expressed in their ceremonies when ancestors are referred to by kinship terms more appropriate to the living, whereas the word for ancestor spirit (isamva; pl. masamva) is rarely used in propitiation although quite common in everyday conversation.

scholarly journals Nonoccupational Hearing Loss: A Gift of Urbanization

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-126
Author(s):  
Sunil Suresh Saler ◽  
Parul Sunil Saler ◽  
Wilson Desai
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
High Noise ◽  
Industrial Environment ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Risk Of Exposure ◽  
Excessive Noise

ABSTRACT Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is one of the notifiable occupational disease under legislation related to occupational health and safety of most of the countries of the world. So far risk of exposure to high noise level was considered to be limited to industrial environment only. However, with rapid urbanization and modernization, the cities are becoming crowded as well as noisy. Exposure to noise from these sources have put the population not exposed to industrial noise also at risk of NIHL, especially the younger population. If corrective measures are not taken this may lead to high percentage of younger urban population with permanent hearing loss. One hundred and fifty students were selected for study which involved questionnaires, interview, routine ENT checkup and audiogram. All the students gave history of exposure to excessive noise from community sources. Two students had residence near railway station while other two stayed near the main highway. It was found that 75% of them had the habit of listening to music with volume at the peak. A total of 10.7% students from the group were found to have hearing loss in range of 26 to 42 decibel which is alarming. The nature of hearing loss temporary or permanent is yet to be assessed by repeating the audiogram. How to cite this article Saler SS, Saler PS, Desai W. Nonoccupational Hearing Loss: A Gift of Urbanization. Int J Head and Neck Surg 2012;3(3):125-126.

Acts of estrangement. The post-mortem making of self and other

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoe Crossland
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
Relational Understanding ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Archaeological Practice ◽  
Dead Bodies ◽  
The Dead

AbstractThe histories of post-mortem intervention in 18th- and 19th-century Britain illustrate how the relationships within which the dead were located affected their post-mortem treatment and were reproduced through it. This paper explores how traditions of marking social distinctions among the dead have been incorporated into archaeological practice, tracing some of the ways in which relationships between the dead and the living define the nature and tone of post-mortem interventions. This history suggests that the conditions within which people are produced as dead bodies through archaeological practice are at present poorly understood, and, as such, I contribute some notes towards a relational understanding of this production.

A. B. C. Sibthorpe: A Tribute

1992 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 327-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Fyfe
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Original Image ◽  
The Past ◽  
Village School ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dead Bodies ◽  
The Dead

Aaron Belisarius Cosimo Sibthorpe, a village school teacher who wrote the first history of Sierra Leone, was a man of mystery, a magus. So he seems to have seen himself. The dead, he wrote, have vanished into oblivion,Except the historian, that monarch of the past, using his noblest privileges, when he takes a survey of his dominions, has only to touch the ruins and dead bodies with his pen, in order to rebuild the palaces, and resuscitate the men. At his voice, like that of the Deity, the dry bones re-unite, the living flesh again covers them, brilliant dresses again clothe them; and in that immense Jehoshaphat (Joel iii, 2, 12), where the children of three thousand years are collected, his own caprice alone regulates his choice, and he has only to announce the names of those Maroons, or those Settlers he requires, to behold them start forth from their tombs, remove the folds of their grave-clothes with their own hands, and answer like Lazarus to our blessed Saviour, ‘Here am I, Lord! what dost thou want with me?’Here is a powerful, original image. The historian peremptorily calls up the dead from the “immense Jehoshaphat”—the valley where they all lie gathered together to await the judgment of God—choosing anyone he wants, and at his call they are obliged to rise and answer him obediently, as Lazarus answered Jesus. If only for this image Sibthorpe deserves our wonder and gratitude.

The Story of a Budapest Garden

Images ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-70
Author(s):  
Zsuzsanna Toronyi
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
Public Space ◽  
World War ◽  
Theodor Herzl ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dead Bodies ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The City

The barely one-thousand-square meter garden next to the Dohány Street synagogue, enclosed by a row of arcades, is a symbolic place in the history of the Hungarian Jewry. The site became a public space in 1896 when the house two down from the synagogue (where Theodor Herzl was born) was demolished during the re-planning of the city. The development of the plot only started after World War I, when the Heroes’ synagogue, intended as a memorial to Jewish soldiers, and the park were built. At the end of World War II, the buildings and the garden became part of the Budapest ghetto. When the ghetto was liberated, the dead bodies of thousands of Jews were found in the streets. 2283 of these were buried in the garden, and are still there. The article examines the story of the cemetery-garden, and its uses as a memorial place.

IV.—The Life-History of Aphidius avenæ (Hal.), a Braconid parasitic on the Nettle Aphis (Macrosiphum urticæ)

1924 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 51-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsie I. MacGrill
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Ventral Side ◽  
Urtica Dioica ◽  
Brown Colour ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Urtica Urens

Nettles of the two species Urtica dioica and Urtica urens are commonly infested with the aphid Macrosiphum urticæ, and amid the living aphids and a collection of moulted skins dead examples are almost certain to be found. These dead aphids are almost spherical in shape and are of a brown colour, quite different from the colour of a normal aphid. They are attached to the nettle-leaf, often to the upper surface, by their ventral side, the leaf generally being discoloured at the point of attachment. If a number of these dead aphids are collected it will be found that, after a time, hymenopterous parasites, a species of the family Braconidæ, issue from the swollen body of the dead aphids. This parasite has been identified as Aphidius avence (Hal.), and the present paper deals with the life-history and habits of this species.

Aneurysms in the history of medicine

VASA ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bollinger ◽  
Rüttimann
Keyword(s):  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Albert Einstein ◽  
Thomas Mann ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
John Hunter ◽  
History Of

Die Geschichte des sackförmigen oder fusiformen Aneurysmas reicht in die Zeit der alten Ägypter, Byzantiner und Griechen zurück. Vesal 1557 und Harvey 1628 führten den Begriff in die moderne Medizin ein, indem sie bei je einem Patienten einen pulsierenden Tumor intra vitam feststellten und post mortem verifizierten. Weitere Eckpfeiler bildeten die Monographien von Lancisi und Scarpa im 18. bzw. beginnenden 19. Jahrhundert. Die erste wirksame Therapie bestand in der Kompression des Aneurysmasacks von außen, die zweite in der Arterienligatur, der John Hunter 1785 zum Durchbruch verhalf. Endoaneurysmoraphie (Matas) und Umhüllung mit Folien wurden breit angewendet, bevor Ultraschalldiagnostik und Bypass-Chirurgie Routineverfahren wurden und die Prognose dramatisch verbesserten. Die diagnostischen und therapeutischen Probleme in der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts werden anhand von zwei prominenten Patienten dargestellt, Albert Einstein und Thomas Mann, die beide im Jahr 1955 an einer Aneurysmaruptur verstarben.

The Prevalence of Hereditary Antithrombin-III Deficiency in Patients with a History of Venous Thromboembolism

1985 ◽  
Vol 54 (04) ◽  
pp. 744-745 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Vikydal ◽  
C Korninger ◽  
P A Kyrle ◽  
H Niessner ◽  
I Pabinger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Venous Thrombosis ◽  
Antithrombin Iii ◽  
Positive Family History ◽  
Normal Range ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Antithrombin Iii Deficiency ◽  
Recurrent Venous Thrombosis ◽  
Antithrombin Iii Activity ◽  
Slight Deficiency

SummaryAntithrombin-III activity was determined in 752 patients with a history of venous thrombosis and/or pulmonary embolism. 54 patients (7.18%) had an antithrombin-III activity below the normal range. Among these were 13 patients (1.73%) with proven hereditary deficiency. 14 patients were judged to have probable hereditary antithrombin-III deficiency, because they had a positive family history, but antithrombin-III deficiency could not be verified in other members of the family. In the 27 remaining patients (most of them with only slight deficiency) hereditary antithrombin-III deficiency was unlikely. The prevalence of hereditary antithrombin-III deficiency was higher in patients with recurrent venous thrombosis.

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