The Chemistry of Death

Daten

Offizielle Daten in der Fachveröffentlichung für das folgende akademische Jahr: 2024-2025

Thematik

Death is not an unaltering state, and far from being an inert mass, the dead body is, under normal circumstances, subject to many complex and, often enough, only partly investigated changes arising from intrinsic as well as extrinsic causes which bring about quite substantial chemical and morphological alterations of the tissues.

Under natural conditions an initially intact body commences to decompose immediately after death, the aim of this course is the integration of these decomposition processes into medical and chemical, biochemical sciences.

Topics:

- Introduction to toxicology

- Enzymatic reactions

- The last minutes of life

- Postmortem changes in general

- Postmortem enzymal changes

- Postmortem non-enzymal chemical changes

- Postmortem chemical changes (short term)

- Postmortem chemical changes (long term)

- Special chemical processes, mummification

- Pathological observations

- Traumatic changes

- Forensic and paleoanthropological methods

- Dating methods

Vorlesungen

• 1. Introduction. Basics of toxicology - Márk László
• 2. Introduction to biochemistry and enzymatic alterations. - Márk László
• 3. Chemical processes of the last few minutes of the life. - Márk László
• 4. Chemical processes of the last few minutes of the life. - Márk László
• 5. General postmortem changes. - Márk László
• 6. General postmortem changes. - Márk László
• 7. Short term postmortem changes. - Márk László
• 8. Chemical alterations of the first hours. - Márk László
• 9. Decomposition processes. - Márk László
• 10. Decomposition processes. - Márk László
• 11. Special chemical modifications, mummification. - Márk László
• 12. Pathological and traumatic investigations. - Márk László

Praktika

Seminare

Materialien zum Aneignen des Lehrstoffes

Obligatorische Literatur

Vom Institut veröffentlichter Lehrstoff

Lecture slides and notes.

Skript

Empfohlene Literatur

Evans: The Chemistry of Death, 1963

Stein: Physical Anthropology, 1976

Voraussetzung zum Absolvieren des Semesters

Written exam. Max. absences: 20%.

Semesteranforderungen

Not possible.

Möglichkeiten zur Nachholung der Fehlzeiten

Not possible.

Prüfungsfragen

Introduction to toxicology

Enzymatic reactions

The last minutes of life

Postmortem changes in general

Postmortem enzymal changes

Postmortem non-enzymal chemical changes

Postmortem chemical changes (short term)

Postmortem chemical changes (long term)

Special chemical processes, mummification

Pathological observations

Traumatic changes

Forensic and paleoanthropological methods

Dating methods

Prüfer

Praktika, Seminarleiter/innen