Corpse : nature, forensics, and the struggle to pinpoint time of death / Jessica Snyder Sachs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sachs, Jessica Snyder, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Time of--Popular works.

Death.

Postmortem changes--Popular works.

Postmortem changes.

Medical jurisprudence--Popular works.

Medical jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>How the hot new science of forensic ecology is cracking some of the world's toughest criminal cases</div>

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 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; Further Reading; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 24, 2015).

ISBN:

0-465-04485-9

OCLC:

855503406