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Title: Embalming: History, Theory, and Practice by Robert G. Mayer, Gordon S. Bigelow ISBN: 0-8385-2185-1 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 01 June, 1990 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $70.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.1 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: ABSOLUTELY MESMERIZING BODY OF WORK!
Comment: Since I am not a funeral director but have been interested in the profession (I used to work with friends on the east coast), I could not put the book down because it captured and sustained my interest. As a novice reader to the mortuary profession, I could not believe how much technical information you had to know. It is almost like becoming a physician. Although the diagrams/pictures were not in color, just having them spiked and fueled my interest -- with actual embalming techniques.
Finally, my favorite unit was on embalming instruments. I highly respect morticians because of the administrative, logistical, creative, and artistic so-called 'hats' they must wear in order to do a professional service!
Rating: 5
Summary: The top textbook for Funeral Services
Comment: Upon reading the standard textbook for Funeral Services in Canada I wasn't satisfied with the large volume of text involved so I turned to Mayer's Theory History and Practice. This book is an excellent resource for students and professionals in the Funeral Services field. There are alot of visual representations and I found it to be very useful in helping with the 'hands on approach' needed to help perfect the embalming process. I hope more students and professionals start using this book as a reference.
This book is not for the average individual interested in gore.
Rating: 3
Summary: Amusing Topic, Dull Style
Comment: Ths tyle that this book was written in is pretty dran boring, but then again, it is a textbook, and they're supposed to be dull, I reckon. The section on the history of embalming is a bit sparse and the legal requirements will put one to sleep, but the actual theory and practice I found to be quite informative, if somewhat out-of-date. I wish the pictures were in colour (at least some of them) as the balck-and-white rendering defeats the purpose of some of them; for example, we are shown an example of someone who died from carbon monoxide poisoning in which the extremitieas are shown to be bright red -- a characteristic of that type of death -- and the picture illustrating this is not in colour, so one really does not get any additional information from it. There are chapters on dealing with "unusual" deaths -- hanging, refrigeration, poisoning, etc., positioning problems, the methods of aspirating the various sections of the body, organ and tissue donors, care of the autopsied body, embalming of infants and those in various stages of decomposition and most other relevant topics, but I would hate for this to be one's only source -- there are better texts available and of course nothing can beat hands-on experience. This may be a good place for an interested party to start, but I think a more modern text would be in order for actual funeral practice.
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Title: Thanatochemistry: A Survey of General, Organic, and Biochemistry for Funeral Service Professionals (2nd Edition) by James M. Dorn, Barbara M. Hopkins ISBN: 013654195X Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 04 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $94.00 |
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Title: Embalming Is Not a Sport by Arlin D. Menager ISBN: 0759622035 Publisher: Authorhouse Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.54 |
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Title: The Psychosocial Aspects of Death and Dying by John Canine, John D. Canine ISBN: 083858098X Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange Pub. Date: 30 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Preserving the Dead: The Art and Science of Embalming (Lost Technology Series) by E. Myers, A.J. Dodge ISBN: 0917914244 Publisher: Lindsay Publications, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 June, 1984 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch ISBN: 0140276238 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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