The humanity, delicacy and sheer grit exhibited here and elsewhere in the book would alone have me recommending this book.

Susan Margaret Black, Baroness Black of Strome, DBE, FBA, FRSE, FRAI, FRSB (née Gunn; born 7 May 1961) is a Scottish forensic anthropologist, anatomist and academic. Yet Black’s utterly gripping account of her life and career as a professor of anatomy and forensic anthropology manages to be surprisingly life-affirming.

It is a form of analytical automation…the real me remains outside of that box somewhere, removed and protected from the sensory bombardment of my work.

Edward Snowden’s Permanent Record is good so far…and I really enjoyed Dalio’s Principles (I remember you didn’t so much! What I did not like about the books was that she spent too many chapters philosophizing about life and death ("what is life; what is death. She begins the book with her medical training in university, what happens in a dissecting lab and how she felt standing before her first body. Likewise, towards the end of the book Sue talks about how her team raised funds for a new anatomy department – this part was a bit boring. However I would just say that the Kosovo chapter was far the hardest to read and made me shed a tear.I lost my Nan to dementia, and it was a long, painful five years that she endured it, until she died peacefully in hospital, next to my Mum.

I read a lot of crime fiction, I've watched Bones and Silent Witness, I knew this was definitely going to be my cup of tea. Indeed, this unsentimental exploration of “the many faces of death” has at its heart the conviction that we should not fear death but accept it “as an integral and fundamentally necessary part of our life’s process”.There’s another surgeon named Henry Gray, from Aberdeen, who was also well-known, though mainly for his wound excision during the First World War, some 50 years after the other one died. K. government on disaster preparedness, and is a co-author of the textbook Developmental Juvenile Osteology (2000). She has seen incredible strength of character from family members, even when the most horrible things have befallen those they love. It took time, but as she became more skillful, her reputation began to grow and she began to be involved in more prestigious and important investigations, such as in gathering evidence of war crimes through forensic examinations of mass graves in war zones.