Robin Odell

Medical Detectives (eBook, ePUB)

The Lives and Cases of Britain's Forensic Five

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The development of forensic pathology in Britain is told here through the lives of five outstanding medical pioneers. Spanning seventy years, their careers and achievements marked major milestones in the development of legal medicine, their work and innovation laying the foundations for modern crime scene investigation (CSI). Sir Bernard Spilsbury, Sir Sydney Smith and Professors John Glaister, Francis Camps and Keith Simpson were the original expert witnesses. Between them, they performed over 200,000 post-mortems during their professional careers, establishing cruicial elements of murder investigation such as time, place and cause of death. This forensic quintet featured in many of the notable murder trials of their time, making ground-breaking discoveries in the process.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780752489308
• Artikelnr.: 38224614

Autorenporträt

Robin Odell has been writing books on true crime since the 1960s and is the author or coauthor of more than 20 books, including The Mammoth Book of Bizarre Crimes, Murderer's Row, and Ripperology.