Corpse : nature, forensics, and the struggle to pinpoint time of death /

Corpse : nature, forensics, and the struggle to pinpoint time of death /

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Looks at the role of forensic ecology--the study of plants, insects, chemicals, and other factors--found near a body in helping forensic pathologists determine the time of death

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sachs, Jessica Snyder
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : Perseus Pub., c2001
Cambridge, MA : ©2001
Cambridge, Mass. : c2001
Cambridge, Mass. : [2001]
Subjects:
Death > Causes
Death > Time of > Popular works
Forensic anthropology > Popular works
Forensic entomology > Popular works
Forensic pathology
Forensic sciences
Medical jurisprudence > Popular works
Postmortem changes > Popular works
Death > Time of
Forensic anthropology
Forensic entomology
Medical jurisprudence
Postmortem changes
Death
Forensic Medicine
Homicide
Time
Popular works
Table of Contents:
  • 1 The Body Handlers
  • 2. Reasonable Doubt
  • 3. The Bone Detectives
  • 4. The Witness Was a Maggot
  • 5. Bug Sleuthing Crosses the Atlantic
  • 6. A Model for Murder
  • 7. The Dirty Dozen
  • 8. Perfecting the Postmortem Clock
  • 9. Plants, Pollen, and Perpetrators
  • 10. The Pathologist's Garden
  • 11. Chemical Clues
  • 12. The New Mod Squad.
  • 1 The Body Handlers 11
  • 2 Reasonable Doubt 27
  • 3 The Bone Detectives 47
  • 4 The Witness Was a Maggot 69
  • 5 Bug Sleuthing Crosses the Atlantic 93
  • 6 A Model for Murder 119
  • 7 The Dirty Dozen 147
  • 8 Perfecting the Postmortem Clock 171
  • 9 Plants, Pollen, and Perpetrators 197
  • 10 The Pathologist's Garden 219
  • 11 Chemical Clues 229
  • 12 The New Mod Squad 247
  • 1 The body handlers
  • 2. Reasonable doubt
  • 3. The bone detectives
  • 4. The witness was a maggot
  • 5. Bug sleuthing crosses the Atlantic
  • 6. A model for murder
  • 7. The dirty dozen
  • 8. Perfecting the postmortem clock
  • 9. Plants, pollen, and perpetrators
  • 10. The pathologist's garden
  • 11. Chemical clues
  • 12. The new mod squad.
  • 1. The body handlers
  • 2 Reasonable doubt
  • 3. The bone detectives
  • 4. The witness was a maggot
  • 5. Bug sleuthing crosses the Atlantic
  • 6. A model for murder
  • 7. The dirty dozen
  • 8. Perfecting the postmortem clock
  • 9. Plants, pollen, and perpetrators
  • 10. The pathologist's garden
  • 11. Chemical clues
  • 12. The new mod squad.

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