Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Sachs, Jessica Snyder.frey50

Corpse : nature, forensics, and the struggle to pinpoint time of death / Jessica Snyder Sachs. - Cambridge, MA : Perseus Pub., c2001. - x, 270 p. ; 22 cm.

The body handlers -- Reasonable doubt -- The bone detectives -- The witness was a maggot -- Bug sleuthing crosses the Atlantic -- A model for murder -- The dirty dozen -- Perfecting the postmortem clock -- Plants, pollen, and perpetrators -- The pathologist's garden -- Chemical clues -- The new mod squad. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

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.

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Death--Time of
Postmortem changes
Medical jurisprudence
Forensic entomology
Forensic anthropology
Death.
Forensic Medicine.
Homicide.
Time.

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