Virtopsy Essays

Nearly all ancient societies practiced body modification through either piercings or tattoos. These ancient practices are becoming ever more present in our modern Canadian society, especially tattoos. One writer says, “Permanent tattooing is the process of body modification by deposition of a pigment into the dermis” (Simunovic and Shinohara 525). Due to skin damage associated with tattoos and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), tattooing should not be practiced in our modern Canadian society. Tattoos

indicators like signs and symptoms. Forensic medicine, on the other hand, comes as a subset of medical jurisprudence. It involves retrieving and analysing of medical evidences from samples to formulate objective information in legal usage. The word “Virtopsy” is a verbal combination or portmanteau of the words “virtual” and “autopsy”, which literally means virtual alternatives to traditional autopsy. “Virtual”

Anything that can be used in a court of law is referred to as forensics. Forensics can be any scientific test that can prove a connection to a crime. The information obtained in any test must be admissible in a court of law. There are many branches of forensic sciences; one branch that is not well known is forensic radiography, or forensic imaging. “Conducting examinations that use ionizing radiation to gather and analyze forensic evidence constitutes forensic radiography” (ASRT. (2010).). Radiography