Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (789 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00YVUEEM0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 460 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Forensics draws on interviews with some of these top-level professionals, groundbreaking research, and Val McDermid's own original interviews and firsthand experience on scene with top forensic scientists. The dead talk - to the right listener. Along the way McDermid discovers how maggots collected from a corpse can help determine one's time of death; how a DNA trace a millionth the size of a grain of salt can be used to convict a killer; and how a team of young Argentine scientists led by a maverick American anthropologist were able to uncover the victims of a genocide. It's a journey that will take McDermid to war zones, fire scenes, and autopsy suites and bring her into contact with both extraordinary bravery and wickedness as she traces the history of forensics from its earliest beginnings to the cutting-edge science of the modern day.. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help serve justice using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene, or the faintest of human traces. T
"If you love crime fiction" according to David Wineberg. If the study of forensics were put on a chart, it would look like human population. It would flatline for thousands of years, then suddenly take off about 200 years ago, and shoot straight up in the 21st century. Val McDermid leverages that parabolic curve in her crime fiction. Her research is meant to make her stories exciting, amazing and authentic. But as in . Well written descriptions and interesting information sharing I never would have picked this book, but it was a book group choice and I had to purchase it rather than wait for the library list to get to me to be on time. I enjoyed the details and the interesting definitions and descriptions. I felt sad that so many people kill other people. I did go to sleep a couple of times while reading, because I did not want to know t. K. L Sadler said A good starting point. I teach physiology and pathophysiology, and so I'm kind of interested in the opposite of these classes, which would be forensics. I often have to talk about muscles and how they work while people are alive, so it is paramount that I understand how these things work when they are dead (such as rigor mortis). I've read a couple of forensic books before, but I foun