Editorial: PDF OnlyAn Unusual Accidental Death From Reverse SuspensionPurdue, Basil B.Sc., M.B.Ch.B., M.R.C.Path., D.M.J. Author Information From the Forensic Medicine Unit, Department of Pathology, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, Scotland. Lecturer in Forensic Medicine. The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology 13(2):p 108-111, June 1992. Buy Abstract Deaths involving prolonged suspension head downwards have received little or no attention in the English-language literature, doubtless because they are extremely rare. An example, involving alcoholic intoxication as the sole complicating factor, is reported. The mechanism of death is also considered since this is plainly a subject of some interest and likely to provoke further thought and discussion. © Lippincott-Raven Publishers.
