Cyril Wecht
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American forensic pathologist
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Criminal Justice
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#68
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#31
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Forensic Science
#4
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#7
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#2
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Cyril Wechtphilosophy Degrees
Philosophy
#6137
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#9119
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#1495
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Logic
#7609
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#9422
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#1170
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Cyril Wecht's Degrees
- Doctorate Medicine University of Pittsburgh
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Cyril Harrison Wecht is an American forensic pathologist. He has been the president of both the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American College of Legal Medicine, and headed the board of trustees of the American Board of Legal Medicine. Wecht served as County Commissioner and Allegheny County Coroner and Medical Examiner, serving the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. He is perhaps best known for his criticism of the Warren Commission's findings concerning the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Cyril Wecht's Published Works
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Published Works
- CHRONIC TRAUMATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY IN A NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE PLAYER: PART II (2005) (573)
- Death during transforaminal epidural steroid nerve root block (C7) due to perforation of the left vertebral artery. (2003) (248)
- Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in a National Football League Player. (2006) (181)
- Death rates and causes of death after bariatric surgery for Pennsylvania residents, 1995 to 2004. (2007) (161)
- Liability: The Legal Revolution and Its Consequences (1989) (101)
- The risk of body packing: a case of a fatal cocaine overdose. (2005) (56)
- Suicides following bariatric surgery for the treatment of obesity. (2005) (43)
- Sudden death in an adolescent boy due to a colloid cyst of the third ventricle. (1998) (41)
- Death by chainsaw: fatal kickback injuries to the neck. (2004) (37)
- Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a National Football League player. (2005) (35)
- The history of legal medicine. (2005) (34)
- Infant Death Due to Air Embolism from Peripheral Venous Infusion (2007) (29)
- Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a national football league player. Part II. Commentary (2005) (27)
- A review of nail gun suicides and an atypical case report. (2003) (26)
- Nursing Home Deaths Which Fall Under the Jurisdiction of the Coroner: An 11-Year Retrospective Study (2007) (25)
- Death from hydrogen-sulphide fumes. (1968) (25)
- Fatal benzene exposure by glue-sniffing. (1967) (25)
- Accurately Assessing Elderly Fall Deaths Using Hospital Discharge and Vital Statistics Data (2006) (25)
- Postbariatric Surgery Deaths, Which Fall Under the Jurisdiction of the Coroner (2004) (25)
- Kawasaki Disease: A Review of Pathologic Features of Stage IV Disease and Two Cases of Sudden Death among Asymptotic Young Adults (2003) (24)
- Microscopic Diagnosis in Forensic Pathology (1980) (20)
- A case of a death by explosives: the keys to a proper investigation. (2005) (19)
- Toluene fatality from glue sniffing. (1968) (19)
- Forensic antiepileptic drug levels in autopsy cases of epilepsy (2011) (18)
- Fatal mercuric chloride ingestion. (1981) (17)
- Forensic Science and Law : Investigative Applications in Criminal, Civil and Family Justice (2005) (17)
- In-Custody Deaths (2010) (16)
- Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in an exhumed decomposed brain after twenty months of burial in a deep grave. (2005) (15)
- EFFECT ON THE LIVER OF LONG-TERM TRANQUILIZING MEDICATION. (1965) (13)
- Cardiac Concussion: Definition, Differential Diagnosis, and Cases Presentation and the Legal Ramification of a Misdiagnosis (2004) (12)
- Suicide with plastic bag and ethyl ether. (1970) (12)
- Codeine fatality from cough syrup. (1970) (11)
- Deaths Among Criminal Suspects, Law Enforcement Officers, Civilians, and Prison Inmates: A Coroner-Based Study (2003) (10)
- Dead bodies, disasters, and the myths about them: is public health law misinformed? (2007) (8)
- Pathology of sudden death during recreational sports activity. (2003) (8)
- Forensic pathology and forensic epidemiology of suicides in allegheny county, pennsylvania (2005) (7)
- Preparing and Winning Medical Negligence Cases (1989) (6)
- Relationships of the Medical Examiner (1965) (5)
- The Swine Flu Immunization Program: Scientific Venture or Political Folly? (1978) (5)
- Reasonable Doubt: An Investigation into the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (1986) (5)
- Sounding board. Forensic pathology - a specialty in trouble. (1977) (4)
- The battered child syndrome: a forensic pathologist's viewpoint. (1980) (4)
- Patient access to medical records: yea or nay? (1978) (4)
- Shaken baby syndrome. (1999) (4)
- A question of freedom. (1978) (4)
- Age‐Based Factors in Femicide (2005) (4)
- Murder in Taiwan (1985) (3)
- November 22, 1963: A Reference Guide to the JFK Assassination (1999) (3)
- Medical, legal, and moral considerations in human experiments involving minors and incompetent adults. (1975) (3)
- Legal Medicine Annual (1981) (3)
- One-Year Postmortem Forensic Analysis of Deaths in Persons with Epilepsy (2010) (3)
- Medical malpractice suits and autopsies. (1991) (3)
- The medical evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. (1974) (3)
- Death Investigation in America (2011) (3)
- Public health law and disaster medicine: understanding the legal environment. (2007) (3)
- Occupational Risks Among Iron and Steelworkers (1975) (3)
- The right to die and physician-assisted suicide medical, legal, and ethical aspects (Part I). (1998) (3)
- SUSTAINED-RELEASE-BARBITURATE RISK (1967) (2)
- A neuroforensic analysis of the wounds of president John F. Kennedy: part 2--a study of the available evidence, eyewitness correlations, analysis, and conclusions. (2005) (2)
- Legal medicine. (1978) (2)
- Postmortem on Elvis Presley won't die. (1979) (2)
- The role of the forensic scientist in civil and criminal litigation. (1990) (2)
- Medical evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. (1974) (2)
- Experts and the Admissibility of Evidence Concerning Scientific, Technical, and Other Specialized Areas of Knowledge (2005) (2)
- A question of murder (2009) (2)
- The Battered Child Syndrome (1) (1984) (2)
- Legal Medicine and Jurisprudence (1996) (2)
- Postmortem grading of cerebral contusions (2005) (2)
- The battered child syndrome--a forensic pathologist's viewpoint. (1981) (2)
- A critique of the medical aspects of the investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy. (1966) (2)
- CHAPTER 29 – Clinical and Forensic Pathology (2007) (2)
- ROAD TRAFFIC, DETERMINATION OF FITNESS TO DRIVE | General (2016) (1)
- The Interfaces of Law and Medicine (1975) (1)
- Update on AIDS--medical, legal, and societal concerns. (1992) (1)
- Exploring the medical malpractice dilemma (1972) (1)
- A Review of: The Death of Old Man Rice (1996) (1)
- Suicide-by-Cop (SbC) Incidents (2010) (1)
- Fatal constriction of an 8-year-old child by her parents' pet python: a call for amendment to existing laws on the ownership of exotic wildlife to protect children from avoidable injury and death. (2003) (1)
- Medical expert testimony--every doctor's concern. (1979) (1)
- The right to die and physician-assisted suicide: medical, legal, and ethical aspects (Part II). (1998) (1)
- Medical ethics and legal liability (1976) (1)
- A Comfort for the Bad Cop—A Challenge for the Good Forensic Scientist (1989) (1)
- Pathologist's view of JFK autopsy: an unsolved case. Ninth anniversary of assassination. (1974) (1)
- Medical-legal aspects of perinatal and surgical infections. (1980) (1)
- Conflagration in an ambulance oxygen system. (1975) (1)
- The "missing" investigation of the Legionnaires' Disease. (1979) (1)
- A comparison of two abortion-related legal inquiries. (1975) (1)
- Cause of death (1993) (1)
- Pathologist's role in product-related deaths. (1983) (1)
- Medical-Legal Evaluation of Hearing Loss (1996) (1)
- Pathologist's role in product-related deaths. (1983) (1)
- Lawsuits for malpractice. (1978) (1)
- Diagnostic tests--a source of potential malpractice lawsuits. (1980) (1)
- Forensic Postmortem Examination of Victims of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (2010) (1)
- DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS IN PRIMARY CARE (2000) (1)
- Coronary care units: legal considerations. (1978) (1)
- Mysteries Unravelled by Postmortem Examination (1989) (1)
- The Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA). (1991) (1)
- Case Studies in Forensic Epidemiology (2003) (1)
- Drug Deaths Decrease (1972) (1)
- The swine flu immunization program: scientific venture or political folly? (1978) (1)
- Medicolegal problems in determining cause of death in motor vehicle accidents. (1975) (1)
- Malpractice in Nineteenth-Century America: Origins and Legacy (1991) (1)
- Coronary care units: legal considerations. (1974) (1)
- The role of the expert witness in paediatric forensic practice (1989) (1)
- Section C. Evidence and the Social and Applied Sciences: An Overview (2005) (1)
- MEDICAL MALPRACTICE SUITS AND AUTOPSIES. AUTHOR REPLY (1991) (0)
- In Memoriam: James G. Zimmerly, M.D., J.D. (2003) (0)
- Forensic Science and Public Health — The Role of Enabling Statutes, Reporting Obligations, and Privacy Laws (2005) (0)
- Forensic Medicine: Edited by Ceasar G. Tedeschi, William G. Eckert and Luke G. Tedeschi, W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia, London, Toronto, 1977, pp. 1680 (3 vols.), price £ 65.00 (1978) (0)
- Crime Scene Investigation (2004) (0)
- Part IV. Foundations of Forensic Science (2005) (0)
- The Death of Innocents—Reply (1998) (0)
- THE DEATH OF INNOCENTS. AUTHOR'S REPLY (1998) (0)
- Medical-legal problems in determining cause of death in motor vehicle accidents (1974) (0)
- The medical-legal and moral considerations in human experiments involving minors (1975) (0)
- Legal Medicine 1986 (1986) (0)
- JFK revisited. (1993) (0)
- Human experimentation and clinical investigation--legal and ethical considerations. (1977) (0)
- Officer-Involved Shootings (OISs) (2010) (0)
- Plaintiff 's Exhibit 0178B: Cyril Wecht Curriculum Vitae (2000) (0)
- Medicolegal problems in determining cause of death in motor vehicle accidents. (1975) (0)
- Money, Medicine, and Malpractice in American Society (1993) (0)
- Supplemental Report of Cyril Wecht (2000) (0)
- Autopsy rates and diagnosis. (1999) (0)
- Compensation of Medical Examiners (1997) (0)
- The role of the forensic pathologist in pediatric pathology. (1989) (0)
- Considerations and potential pitfalls in AIDS lab testing. (1988) (0)
- Proposal to change official governmental medicolegal death scene investigations, New York City. (1991) (0)
- Legal Medicine 1987 (1988) (0)
- Section A. Evidence and the Physical Sciences (2005) (0)
- Book ReviewForensic Medicine. (1978) (0)
- Doctors and the Law: Defendants and Expert Witnesses (1994) (0)
- Simultaneous Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (2001) (0)
- Investigation and Prevention of Officer-Involved Deaths (2010) (0)
- Editorial: The medical malpractice crisis. (1975) (0)
- Condensed Testimony of Dr. Cyril Wecht (2000) (0)
- Considerations and potential pitfalls in lab test of AIDS. (1988) (0)
- Emotionally Disturbed Persons (2010) (0)
- Annual Oration to be Delivered by Dr. Cyril Wecht (1974) (0)
- Pathologist's role in product-related deaths. (1986) (0)
- DEATH INVESTIGATION SYSTEMS | United States of America (2005) (0)
- Reducing and Preventing Deaths by Training and Policy Guidance (2010) (0)
- Response to the National Association of Medical Examiners position paper on the certification of cocaine-related deaths. (2004) (0)
- 59. The Epidemiology of Bridge Jumpers (1996) (0)
- Clinical cause of death and autopsy results. (2001) (0)
- Homicide investigation--importance of scene visit by forensic pathologist. (1987) (0)
- Emergency Vehicle Operations (2010) (0)
- Pathologist's view of JFK autopsy: an unsolved case. Ninth anniversary of assassination. (1973) (0)
- ROAD TRAFFIC, DETERMINATION OF FITNESS TO DRIVE | Driving Offense (2005) (0)
- The Death of Old Man Rice: A True Story of Criminal Justice in America (1995) (0)
- Deposition of Dr. Cyril Wecht (2000) (0)
- Use and abuse of medicolegal and forensic scientific expert testimony in the courtroom. (1996) (0)
- Road Traffic: Determination of Fitness to Drive – Driving Offense (2016) (0)
- Book Reviews: HANDBOOK OF LEGAL MEDICINE. By Alan R. Moritz andC. Joseph Stetler, THE (SOVIET) SOCIALIST THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. By Bernard A. Ramundo with the assistance of Armins Rusis, and LAW, LIBERTY AND MORALITY. By H. L. A. Hart (1964) (0)
- Informed consent. (1978) (0)
- Medical-Legal Ramifications of Human Tissue Transplantation (2015) (0)
- Euthanasia, active and passive, and the right to die — medicolegal considerations (1976) (0)
- Wecht Analysis of Sheppard Murder (1999) (0)
- The Anthrax Letters: A Medical Detective Story (2004) (0)
- Effective Expert Witnessing, Fourth Edition: Practices for the 21st Century (2005) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW (2005) (0)
- IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ) (2006) (0)
- Medical malpractice in the united states — some practical considerations (1976) (0)
- The "missing" investigation of Legionnaires' disease. (1978) (0)
- Less-Lethal Weapons (2010) (0)
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