A Matter of Life and Death

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Sue Armstrong. A Matter of Life and Death

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

‘PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF’

‘CHILDREN ARE NOT JUST LITTLE ADULTS’

READING THE BONES

WITNESS TO THE RAVAGES OF AIDS

HOW BODIES DECAY: LESSONS FROM THE BODY FARM

CANCER IN CLOSE-UP

THE DEADLY SECRETS OF SPANISH FLU

WHO WAS THE FIRST PATHOLOGIST?

SCIENCE IN THE SERVICE OF HUMAN RIGHTS

MAD COWS AND HUMAN DISEASE

FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT

OF ROUGH POLITICS AND POWERFUL PATHOLOGY

SHAKEN BABIES AND UNSHAKABLE MINDS

DIAGNOSIS: A MARRIAGE OF ART AND SCIENCE

EASING THE PAIN OF LOSS

STEM CELLS AND THE BODY’S REMARKABLE CAPACITY FOR REPAIR

FORENSICS IN A CULTURE OF VIOLENCE

LESSONS IN LIVING AND DYING

GLOSSARY

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Copyright

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‘I really became interested in pathology during my second year at medical school. Looking through the microscope I saw medicine come alive. I wanted to understand disease and what caused it, and how these changes occurred in the patient. Pathology certainly was not a “dead” science in any sense. I felt I learnt most of my medicine by studying pathology. It was the basis for everything.’

Elaine Jaffe, Director, Laboratory of Pathology, Cancer Research Center at the National Cancer Institute, USA

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I have to take drugs to suppress the immune system, to prevent rejection of my new organs. They aren’t difficult to take, except that I have to take loads in the morning and loads in the evening. But the consequences of taking these drugs are not nice. You can develop malignant tumours. You can develop very serious infections because your immune system is suppressed. And some people die from what is called chronic rejection. Tomorrow is my ‘annual’ check-up actually, my MOT.

And do you get frissons of fear before your check-up?

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