Deadhouse : life in a coroner's office / John Temple.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Temple, John, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coroners--Vocational guidance.

Coroners.

Medical jurisprudence--Vocational guidance.

Medical jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

See the author's Web site. Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner's Office chronicles the exploits of a diverse team of investigators at a coroner's office in Pittsburgh. Ed Strimlan is a doctor who never got to practice medicine. Instead he discovers how people died. Mike Chichwak is a stolid ex-paramedic, respected around the office for his compassion and doggedness. Tiffani Hunt is twenty-one, a single mother who questions whether she wants to spend her nights around dead bodies. All three deputy coroners share one trait: a compulsive curiosity. A good thing too, because any observation at a death sc

Contents:

Tracy's first night

Autopsy

The crying room

Next of kin

The courtroom

Death, be not proud

The TV team

The floater

Pickles in court

Ed's last night.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-57806-744-8

1-283-36358-5

9786613363589

1-60473-301-2

OCLC:

317329285