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Postmortem : how medical examiners explain suspicious deaths / Stefan Timmermans.
- Title
- Postmortem : how medical examiners explain suspicious deaths / Stefan Timmermans.
- Author
- Timmermans, Stefan, 1968-
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
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- Description
- x, 367 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Postmortem goes deep inside the world of medical examiners to uncover the intricate web of pathological, social, legal, and moral issues in which they operate. Stefan Timmermans spent years in a medical examiner's office, following cases, interviewing examiners, and watching autopsies. While he relates fascinating cases here, he is also more broadly interested in the cultural authority and responsibilities that come with being a medical examiner. Although these professionals attempt to remain objective, medical examiners are nonetheless responsible for evaluating subtle human intentions. Consequently, they may end - or start - criminal investigations, issue public health alerts, and even cause financial gain or harm to survivors. How medical examiners speak to the living on behalf of the dead, is Timmermans's subject, revealed here in the day-to-day lives of the examiners themselves."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Fieldwork encounters and discoveries
- Uniform Title
- Fieldwork encounters and discoveries.
- University press scholarship online.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-356) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: brokering suspicious deaths -- Making the case for heart disease -- The fifty-one percent rule of suicide -- Forensic credibility at the "nanny trial" -- The perfect crime -- A baby died. Where were the parents? -- The organ and tissue trade -- Conclusion: the hope of forensic authority -- Postscript: "how can you watch autopsies?".
- ISBN
- 0226803988 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226803982
- LCCN
- ^^2005032147
- OCLC
- 62282067
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library