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January 2011

February 2010

NewFebruary 17, 2010
xxxxxxOhio Embalmers Association
xxxxxxRootstown, OH
xxxxxxContact OEA at 513-618-1932

NewFebruary 23, 2010
xxxxxxEpsilon Nu Delta Mortuary Fraternity, Inc. Seminar
xxxxxxAtlanta, GA
xxxxxxContact END at (404) 522-8454

March 2010

xxxxxxMarch 10-13, 2010 (Multiple Embalming Topic Presentations)
xxxxxx ICCFA Annual Convention
xxxxxxSan Antonio, TX
xxxxxxContact ICCFA at www.iccfa.com

xxxxxxMarch 15-19, 2010
xxxxxxDodge Sunshine Seminar
xxxxxxFt. Lauderdale, FL
xxxxxxContact Dodge at www.dodgeco.com

April 2010

NewApril 8, 2010
xxxxxxProtecting Your Business from Prep Room Related Lawsuits
xxxxxx New Jersey State Funeral Directors Association
xxxxxxMonroe Township, NJ
xxxxxxContact NJSFDA at 732-282-5121 or www.njsfda.org

May 2010

NewMay 12, 2010
xxxxxxOhio Embalmers Association
xxxxxxCleveland, OH
xxxxxxContact OEA at 513-618-1932

June 2010

NewSAVE the DATE!
xxxxxxJune 11, 2010
xxxxxxAmerican Society of Embalmers
xxxxxxAnnual Meeting & Conference
xxxxxxWorsham College of Mortuary Science
xxxxxxWheeling, IL
xxxxxxCheck back for updates on this program

July 2010

August 2010

xxxxxxAugust 5- 8, 2010
xxxxxx 1st Biennial International Embalming and Reconstructive Surgery Conference
xxxxxxHoliday Inn North Hotel & Convention Center
xxxxxxSpringfield, MO
xxxxxxContact FNA at www.fnacademy.com

September 2010

NewSeptember 2, 2010
xxxxxxWebinar: Embalming Skills: Surgical Treatment to Stop Purge
xxxxxxContact NFDA at www.nfda.org or 800-228-6332

October 2010

November 2010

December 2010

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Books of Interest

xxxxxxA biographical history of medicine - John H. Talbott, MD

xxxxxxA Fly for the Prosecution - M. Lee Goff

xxxxxxA Matter of Life and Death: conversations with a pathologist - Sue Armstrong

xxxxxxA Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy & Embodies Social Identity in 19th Century AmericaMichael Sappol

xxxxxxA Voice for the Dead: A forensic investigators pursuit of the truth in the grave - James Starrs

xxxxxxAlive: The Living Breathing Human Body Book - DK Publishing (Great for Kids)

xxxxxxAmerican Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center - William Langewiesche
xxxxxxSee page 139 re: discussions of why people want to retrieve their loved ones

xxxxxxAnthropology of Death and Burial - M. Pearson

xxxxxxBeyond Knowing: Mysteries and Messages of Death and Life from a Forensic Pathologist -
xxxxxxJanis Amatuzio, MD.

xxxxxxBeyond the Body Farm: a legendary bone detective explores murders, mysteries, and the revolution in forensic
xxxxxxscience - Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson

xxxxxxBiohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World Told from
xxxxxxthe Inside by the Man Who Ran It - Ken Alibek

xxxxxxBird Flu: Everything You Need to Know About the Next Pandemic - Dr. Marc Siegal, Wiley Press

xxxxxxBodies We've Buried - Jarrett Hallcox and Amy Welch, Foreword by Dr. Bill Bass. Berkley Press

xxxxxxBodies We've Buried: Inside the National Forensic Academy, the World's Top CSI Training School - Bill Bass

xxxxxxBody Brokers: Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains - Annie Cheney

xxxxxxBody of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab - Christine Montross

xxxxxxBones - Dr. Douglas Ubelaker and Henry Scammell

xxxxxxBrookwood Necropolis Railway - John Clarke

xxxxxxBuried Alive - Jan Bondeson

xxxxxxBurke and Hare: Infamous 19th Century Body Snatchers - Brian Bailey

xxxxxxBury the Dead: Corpses, Skeletons, Mummies & Tombs - Christopher Sloan

xxxxxxCadaver Dog Handbook: Forensic Training and Tactics for the Recovery of Human Remains - Andrew Rebmann

xxxxxxCarved in Bone, a Body Farm Novel - Dr. William Bass (The Body Farm) writes as Jefferson Bass in this interesting
xxxxxxmurder mystery novel

xxxxxxCelebrations of Death: An Anthropology of Mortuary Rituals - Peter Metcalfe and Richard Huntington

xxxxxxCemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, embalming secrets and the life of a corpse after death - Katherine
xxxxxxRamshaw

xxxxxxCoffins, Kits and More - Lee Ward (ASE Member)

xxxxxxCold Case Homicides: Practical Investigative Techniques - R. H. Walton

xxxxxxCorpse - Jessica Snyder Sachs.

xxxxxxCorpses, Coffins & Crypts: A History of Burial - Penny Colman

xxxxxxCreutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - A Practical Guide for the Embalmer - Available through the NJ Funeral Service
xxxxxxEducation Corporation. 732-974-9444

xxxxxxCrime Scene Chemistry for the Armchair Sleuth - C. Cobb, M. Fetterolf, J. Goldsmith

xxxxxxCriminal Poisoning: Investigational guide for law enforcement, toxicologists, forensic scientists and attorneys -
xxxxxxJohn Harris Trestrail, III

xxxxxxDead and Buried? - Norman Adams

xxxxxxDead Men Do Tell Tales - William R. Maples, Ph.D., and Michael Browning

xxxxxxDead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers - Michael Baden

xxxxxxDeath, Dissection and the Destitute - Ruth Richardson

xxxxxxDeath's Acre - Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson

xxxxxxDetection of Human Remains - Edward W. Killam

xxxxxxDissecting DeathFredrick Zugibe, MD, PhD and David L. Carroll

xxxxxxDissections: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine, 1880-1930 - John Harley Warmer and
xxxxxxJames M. Edmonson

xxxxxxDoes this mean you'll see me naked? - Robert D. Webster

xxxxxxDread. How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu - Phillip Alcabes.

xxxxxxEarthly Remains - Andrew T. Chamberlain and Michael Parker Pearson

xxxxxxEgyptian Mummies: Unraveling the Secrets of an Ancient Art - B. Brier

xxxxxxEmbalming: History, Theory and Practice.  4th Revised Edition - Robert G. Mayer (ASE co-founder), Editor.
xxxxxx704 pages with new author contributions

xxxxxxEmbalming Is Not A Sport - Arlin D. Menager

xxxxxxEmbalming Notes - Daniel Winship

xxxxxxEssentials of Autopsy Practice - Guy N. Rutty

xxxxxxEvidence Embalmed - Rosalie David and Eddie Tapp

xxxxxxExplosives and Chemical Weapons Identification - James B. Crippin

xxxxxxFatal Sequence: The Killer Within - Kevin J. Tracey, MD

xxxxxxFBI Handbook of Crime Scene Forensics - The FBI

xxxxxxFear Less – Real Truth About Risk, Safety, and Security in a Time of Terrorism - Gavin DeBecker

xxxxxxFinal Exam: A surgeon's reflections on mortalit - Pauline W. Chen

xxxxxxFinal Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die - Michael Largo

xxxxxxFinding Heroes: The Search for Columbia's Astronauts - Byron Starr

xxxxxxFlesh and Bone: An Introduction to Forensic Anthropology

xxxxxxFlesh and Bone - published under the author name Jefferson Bass. Great new book by William Bass of the
xxxxxxBody Farm

xxxxxxFlesh and Bone: an introduction to forensic anthropology - M. Nafte

xxxxxxForensic Art and Illustration - Karen T. Taylor

xxxxxxForensic Detective: how I cracked the world's toughest cases - Robert Mann

xxxxxxForensic Osteology: Advances in the Identification of Human Remains - Kathleen J. Reichs and William M. Bass

xxxxxxForensic Recovery of Human Remains: Archaeological Approaches - Tosha Dupras

xxxxxxFossils: The History of Life - R. Fortey

xxxxxxGerms: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War - Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg and William Broad

xxxxxxGrave Exodus - Xavier A. Cronin

xxxxxxGrieving the Death of a Pet - Betty J. Carmack

xxxxxxHandbook of Forensic Pathology - V. J. DiMaio

xxxxxxHistory of American Funeral Directing - Robert W. Habenstein and William M. Lamers. 3rd Revised Edition

xxxxxxHistory of Embalming and of preparations in anatomy, pathology and natural history - Jean Nicholas Gannal.
xxxxxxReprinted by BiblioLife, February, 2009

xxxxxxHuman Bones in Archaeology - Ann Stirland

xxxxxxInside the World Trade Center DNA Story: The Unprecedented Effort to Identify the Missing - Robert C. Shaler

xxxxxxIntroduction to Forensic Anthropology: A Textbook - Steven N. Byers

xxxxxxJoint Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Mortuary Affairs in Joint Operations - Joint Pub 4-06

xxxxxxLenin's Embalmers - Ilya Zbarsky and Samuel Hutchinson

xxxxxxLiving Terrors – What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bioterrorist Catastrophe -
xxxxxxMichael T. Osterholm and John Schwartz

xxxxxxMagnificent Corpses: Searching through Europe for St. Peter's Head, St. Claire's Heart, St. Stephen's Hand
xxxxxxand Other Saintly Relics - Anneli S. Rufus

xxxxxxMaking Faces; Using Forensic and Archaeological Evidence - John Prag and Richard Neave
xxxxxx
Excellent resource on facial reconstruction

xxxxxxMaterials Used At The Embalming Of King Tutankhamen - Herbert Eustis Winlock

xxxxxxMissing Corpse: Grave robbing a guilded age tycoon - Wayne Fanebust

xxxxxxMistress of the Art of Death - Ariana Franklin

xxxxxxModern Mummies - Christine Quigley

xxxxxxMorbid Appearances - the anatomy of pathology in the 19th Century - Russell Mavlits

xxxxxxMummies, Bones & Body Parts - Charlotte Wilcox

xxxxxxMummies: The newest, coolest and creepiest from around the world - Shelly Tanaka

xxxxxxMutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia - G. Worden

xxxxxxNecropolis: London and It's Dead - Catharine Arnold

xxxxxxNotes of an Anatomis - F. Gonzalez-Crussi

xxxxxxPreserving the Dead. The Art and Science of Embalming - Lost Technology Series, Lindsay Publications
xxxxxx
- a collection of articles originally published in the Champion Textbook, circa 1897-1900

xxxxxxRest In Peace - Gary Laderman

xxxxxxRevenge of the Microbes: How Bacterial Resistance Undermining the Antibiotic Miracle - AA Salyers, DD Whitt
xxxxxx
(Available through the American Society of Microbiology)

xxxxxxSecret Biological Warfare - Nick McCamley

xxxxxxSecrets of the Ancient Dead, Deciphering the Past From Tombs, Graves and Mummies - Tony Allen

xxxxxxSkulls and Skeletons - Christine Quigley

xxxxxxSleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America - Stanley Burns

xxxxxxSleeping Beauty II: Grief, Bereavement in Memorial Photography American and European Traditions - Stanley Burns

xxxxxxSoldier Dead. How we recover, identify, bury and honor our military fallen - Michael Sledge

xxxxxxSpeaking for the Dead: Cadavers in Biology and Medicine - D. Gareth Jones

xxxxxxSpook. Science tackles the afterlife - Mary Roach

xxxxxxStealing Lincoln's Body - Thomas J. Craughwell

xxxxxxStiff: The Curious Lives of Cadavers - Mary Roach

xxxxxxTales from the Morgue: Forensic Answers to Nine Famous Cases - Cyril Wecht, Mark Curriden and Angela Powell.
xxxxxxPrometheus Books, NY

xxxxxxTeasing Secrets from the Dead - Emily Craig

xxxxxxThanatochemistry - James Dorn and Barbara Hopkins
xxxxxx
Available through most book stores and Amazon.com

xxxxxxThe A to Z Infectious of Disease Guide - Bonnie Turkington, Carol Lee

xxxxxxThe Bone Detectives: How Forensic Anthroppologists Solve Crimes and Uncover Mysteries of the Dead
xxxxxxDonna M. Jackson

xxxxxxThe Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture - Jonathon Sawday

xxxxxxThe Body of Il Deuce: Mussolini's Corpse and the Fortunes of Italy - Sergio Luzzatto

xxxxxxThe Body in Bioethics - Alastair V. Campbell

xxxxxxThe Bone Lady - Mary Manheim

xxxxxxThe Corpse: A History - Christine Quigley

xxxxxxThe Day of the Dead and Other Mortal Reflections - F. Gonzalez-Crussi

xxxxxxThe Handbook of Death & Dying - 2 volumes, Clifford D. Bryant, Editor in Chief

xxxxxxThe Hot Zone - Richard Preston

xxxxxxThe Ice Maiden: Inca Mummies, Mountain Gods, and Sacred Sites in the Andes - J. Reinhard

xxxxxxThe Italian Boy, A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830's London - Sarah Wise (currently
xxxxxxavailable, excellent historical work about the body snatching and grave robbing period in London)

xxxxxxThe Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching and the Birth of Modern Surgery - Wendy Moore, Broadway Books, NY

xxxxxxThe Lassa Ward. One Man's Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases - Ross I. Donaldson, M.D.

xxxxxxThe Missing Corpse: Grave Robbing a Gilded Age Tycoon - Wayne Fanebust

xxxxxxThe Phantom Museum: Henry William's Medical Mysteries - H. Hawken

xxxxxxThe Sacred Remains - Gary Laderman

xxxxxxThe Scientific Study of Mummies - Arthur C. Aufderheide. Great text that also covers embalming.

xxxxxxTrail of Bones: More cases from the files of a forensic anthropologist - Mary H. Manheim

xxxxxxTransplanting Human Tissue - S. Youngner, M. Anderson and R. Shapiro

xxxxxxUnnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner - Michael Baden

xxxxxxWar of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War 1 to Al Qaeda - Jonathan B. Tucker, Pantheon Books

xxxxxxWhat Happens When You Die: from your last breath to the first spadeful - Robert Hatch

xxxxxxWhat the Corpse Revealed: Murder & the Science of Forensic Detection - Hugh Miller

xxxxxxWhen We Die - Cedric Mims

xxxxxxWritten in Bones: How human remains unlock the secrets of the dead - Paul G. Bahn

NewOvermodeled Skulls - Arthur C. Aufderheide, Publisher Heide Press ©2009

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Journals of Interest

xxxxxxFuneral Ethics Association Newsletter - May, 2006 had an article on Protecting Your Clients! This article
xxxxxxdiscussed the preparation room and issues that make us vulnerable to litigation. You can contact FEA at
xxxxxx(217)525-1520  or
  www.fea.org.

xxxxxxJanuary 2009 National Geographic Magazine - Sicily Crypt. In depth look at Alfredo Salafia's method of embalming.

xxxxxxPaleopathology Newsletter - www.paleopathology.org

xxxxxxScientific Sleuthing Review - Published through George Washington University National Law Center


Other

xxxxxxAtlas of Forensic MedicineElsevier Books
xxxxxxA great learning (or teaching) tool with more than 1600 forensic images

xxxxxxCapuchin Catacombs, Palermo, Italy

xxxxxxCollege of Surgeons, London, England - www.rcseng.ac.uk
xxx xxxThe Hunterian Museum features the works of the Hunter Brothers

xxxxxxEmbalming video:
xxxxxxOrgan and Tissue Donation: Why we care and what we need to know - C. Rostad, V. Fountain, S. Gilligan, and
xxxxxxR. Ninker. Available from the NY State Tribute Foundation, 800-291-2629.  Also available: The Funeral Director's
xxxxxxGuide to Organ and Tissue Donation and Restoration.

xxxxxxMovie:
xxxxxx Departures

xxxx xxMutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia - www.collphyphil.org

    Second Life Program
    A non-profit charity that recovers explanted useable pacemakers and defibrillators and prepares them to be shipped to second and third world countries (refurbished and tested for re-use). These patients often cannot afford these necessary medical devices.  Families that wish to donate these items from a deceased remains will receive a federal income tax credit and will need to sign consent forms for the donation.  Funeral homes that wish to participate can contact Robert M. Green at 203-318-0472 for a donation kit and further information. Second Life is also seeking physicians who would be willing to travel overseas to perform surgery to implant these devices.  All inquiries from physicians should go to Mr. Green at the number listed above.


Exhibits

xxxxxxWritten in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th Century Chesapeake.
xxxxxxFebruary 2, 2009 - February 6, 2011
xxxxxxAmerican Museum of Natural History (at the Smithsonian)
xxxxxxWashington, DC

xxxxxxTutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
xxxxxxJune 27, 2009 - March 28, 2010
xxxxxxDe Young Museum
xxxxxxSan Francisco, CA
xxxxxxwww.famsf.org/deyoung

xxxxxxNational Museum of Health and Medicine  - several very interesting exhibits ongoing
xxxxxxwww.nmhm.washingtondc.museum
xxxxxx - Trauma Bay II
xxxxxx - Resolved - Advances in Forensic Identification of US Ward Dead
xxxxxx - Research matters: Environmental and Toxicological Effects of Arsenic (includes Dr. Thomas Holmes
xxxxxx embalmed specimen)

xxxxxxBody Worlds and The Brain
xxxxxxOctober 17, 2009 - February 9, 2010
xxxxxxThe Franklin Institute
xxxxxxPhiladelphia, PA

xxxxxxTutankhamun and the Great Pharaohs
xxxxxxNovember 24, 2009 - April, 2010
xxxxxxArt Gallery of Ontario
xxxxxxOntario, Toronto, Canada
xxxxxxwww.ago.net

NewAbraham Lincoln: The Final Casualty of the War
xxxxxxCurrent
xxxxxxNational Museum of Health and Medicine
xxxxxxWashington, DC
xxxxxxwww.nmhm.washingtondc.museum/exhibits/lincoln/casualty_of_war.html

NewVery Postmortem: Mummies and Medicine
xxxxxxOctober 31, 2009-July 4, 2010
xxxxxxFine Arts Museum of San Francisco
xxxxxxwww.famsf.org

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Must See TV

xxxxxxBones.
xxxxxxWednesday's 7pm Central time. Based on the life of Kathy Reich's, forensic anthropologist

xxxxxxDr. G: Medical Examiner.
xxxxxxFriday's 8-m Central time. Based on the real stories of  Dr. Jan C. Garavaglia, Florida ME.

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