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...laws are not entirely fair to breeders, though, says George Padgett, a veterinary pathologist at Michigan State University. "Some may be penalized unfairly because no one has taught them about genetic defects." Agrees Penn's Dr. Donald Patterson, founder of the genetic section of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine and widely acknowledged as the dean of canine genetic research, "The common misconception is that breeders are cavalier." The real problem, he says, is that they have not had the scientific information to detect hidden defects and thus avoid bad breeding decisions...
...grimmest and most convincing is Patricia Cornwell's The Body Farm (Scribners; 387 pages; $23), the fifth adventure of Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a gifted forensic pathologist, which means, yes, a performer of autopsies. And a fast hand with panty hose; it's she who tends to the wounded fellow, who as it happens is her married lover...
...effects, with maybe an ecological message. Redford, who signed on for $8 million and who had script approval, wanted an ecological message movie about a heroic virologist from the Centers for Disease Control -- his role. Foster ($6 million and script approval) wanted an ecological thriller about a heroic Army pathologist -- her role...
Does anybody believe the King really died from heart disease? That's what it says on his death certificate, but the state of Tennessee has joined the legions of doubters. This morning, a pathologist hired by the Tennessee department of health arrived in Memphis, ready to review Elvis Presley's medical records, autopsy report and other information. At issue: whether Shelby County medical examiner Jerry Francisco suppressed the role drugs played in Presley's death on Aug. 16, 1977. The verdict's due in two weeks...
...genetic material comes from one of several hundred bodies, mummified by natural forces, that were unearthed in 1989 and 1990 by University of Chicago anthropologists from the cemeteries of Chiribaya, an agricultural community along the coast of what is now southern Peru. Pathologist Arthur Aufderheide of the University of Minnesota, who autopsied the mummies, was intrigued by one woman he judged to have been 40 to 45 years old, an advanced age for her society. But he expected to find little else remarkable because the body was so poorly preserved. To his surprise, when he opened the chest, he found...