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

Author: Jessica Snyder Sachs
Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Perseus Pub., ©2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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.
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Genre/Form: Popular works
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jessica Snyder Sachs
ISBN: 073820336X 9780738203362 0738207713 9780738207711
OCLC Number: 48150282
Description: x, 270 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Jessica Snyder Sachs.
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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.

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