This is a small paperback book that reviews the different forms of asphyxia. A third of the book's 136 pages are devoted to pathological mechanisms and autopsy findings of asphyxia. There is considerable redundancy from one section to the next. This is understandable because the pathological findings for each form of asphyxia is described, but it is repetitious and unnecessary since the pathology of the various forms of asphyxia have many features in common.