Corpse :
by Sachs, Jessica Snyder.frey50
Published by : Perseus Pub., (Cambridge, MA :) , 2001 Physical details: x, 270 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN:073820336X; 9780738203362; 0738207713 (pbk.); 9780738207711 (pbk.). ISSN:978073820Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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.
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.