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Unnatural death : confessions of a medical examiner / Michael M. Baden with Judith Adler Hennessee.
- Title
- Unnatural death : confessions of a medical examiner / Michael M. Baden with Judith Adler Hennessee.
- Author
- Baden, Michael M.
- Publication
- New York : Random House, c1989.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Hennessee, Judith Adler.
- Description
- xiv, 209 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Famous cases/problems covered include identifying MIA remains, John Belushi, Pinchos Jaroslawicz, David Hendricks, Mary Beth Tinning, Joe Christopher, Richard Kuklinski, Catherine Fried, Carl Coppolino, Dr. X, Whitney Young, Josephine Wells Brown, Daphne Mellon, S&M, Leonard Barco, Claus von Bulow, Attica Prison riot deaths.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Case studies.
- Note
- On cover: MMB.
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Heroes and conspiracies: the price of fame -- The education of a medical examiner: life and death, uptown and downtown -- Autopsy: anatomy and destiny -- History: from taxman to medical examiner -- Manhattan postmortem: city politics -- Earthly remains: identifying the dead: MIAs, airline crash, algae lady, floater, hair -- Time of death: biological clocks: John Belushi -- drug overdose, Pinchos Jaroslawicz -- stone cold, David Hendricks -- the pizza connection -- Crazy quilt: multiple murders: Mary Beth Tining -- where have all the children gone?, Joe Christopher -- the Buffalo slasher, Richard Kuklinski -- the ice man -- Almost perfect: without a trace: Catherine Fried -- burking, Carl Coppolino -- succinylcholine, Dr. X -- curare -- Close calls: accidental death: Whitney Young -- Nigerian drowning, Dr. Josephine Wells Brown -- frightened to death, Daphne Mellon -- youthful indiscretion, S&M -- careless love -- Diagnostic follies: natural endings: Leonard Barco -- ordeal by error, Claus von Bulow -- was it insulin? -- Attica: who did it?
- ISBN
- 0394569822 (jkt.)
- 9780394569826 (jkt.)
- 0394554863 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 88043366
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries