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Cargando... Cause of Death: Forensic Files of a Medical Examinerpor Stephen D. Cohle, Tobin T. Buhk
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Cause of Death is actually a non-fiction book that i got from my job (working at a bookstore has it’s perks). It’s a collection of case histories from the Kent County forensic pathologist and while the science and the autopsies are really interesting the writing is terrible! He was constantly repeating himself, kept referencing things over and over again, and had a very condescending/patronizing voice the entire time. It was if he was writing the book expecting every one who read it to be as dumb as rocks and that he was the supreme higher being. The structure of the book was also kinda weird, there are random breaks to tell side stories right in the middle of the current autopsy you’re reading about. Also he seems like a douche because he tells one of his friends (the co author) to show up at the morgue at a certain time and he himself is always a half hour to an hour late just because he can be. Ugh. But i stuck with the book mainly because the autopsies themselves were interesting. ( ) This was an excellent book on forensic medicine as seen from the layman's perspective. Written in corroboration between a medical examiner and a schoolteacher who observed the former's autopsies on weekends over a period of months, it covers all different types of death: natural, homicide, suicide, accident. It includes details (like the use of wintergreen to cope with the smell of decomposing corpses) which bring the postmortem room to life. And you are also told about the lives of the autopsy subjects, and can feel for them. I would highly recommend Cause of Death to any lay person interested in autopsies and forensic medicine. My only complaint is that the book is somewhat repetitive; the authors tend to repeat the same facts (like, details on what the various autopsy knives and scapels are like) in every chapter. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The body of a woman floats to the surface of a lake with sixty pounds of cinder block and chain attached to her legs. Her killer faces the death penalty if the prosecution can answer one question: Did she drown? A worker for the only U.S. plant licensed to produce anthrax dies, the victim of a heart attack. But what caused his heart to stop beating? Follow veteran medical examiner Dr. Stephen D. Cohle into the world of forensic pathology, as he solves these and many other cases. Written from an insider's view, Cause of Death puts the reader behind Dr. Cohle's shoulder while he examines each victim. The cases range from exotic murder mysteries ripe for a CSI episode to everyday casualties of heart attacks and car accidents. Every victim, though, has a story to tell. Enter a real-life morgue with its strange sights, sounds, and smells, and watch a forensic mastermind as he unravels each victim's cause of death. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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