Acknowledgements
Invaluable in the writing of this book were: Vincent J. M. Di Maio’s Gunshot Wounds: Practical aspects of firearms, ballistics and forensic techniques; Ulrich Drews’ Color Atlas of Embryology; R. M. H. McMinn, R. T. Hutchings, J. Pegington and P. H. Abrahams’ Color Atlas of Human Anatomy; Elisabeth Bronfen’s Over Her Dead Body: Death, femininity and the aesthetic, Philippe Ariès’ The Hour of Our Death; and J. G. Ballard’s Crash. Also, the exhibitions Doctor Death: Medicine at the end of life (Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine) and The Quick and the Dead: Artists and anatomy (National Touring Exhibitions).
The author would like to thank Simon Prosser; Lesley Shaw; Sarah Day; Harriet Braun; Mic Cheetham, Oliver Cheetham; Alex O’Connell; Dominic Hill; Lucy Till; Anica Alvarez; Julian, Caroline, Maisie; Georgina and Charlotte.