Guy N. Rutty
Editor

2008

Topical developments, trends and advances

Autopsy practice continues to change and evolve. In fact, since this series started the investigation of the dead has possibly changed more than in any part of its development through the centuries. For the first time we find ourselves in an era when not only the very necessity to undertake an autopsy is being questioned but that there may be a realistic alternative to invasive autopsies.