medical jurisprudence

Fractured skulls. Gas masks. Brain buckets. Vats of acid. Pickled body parts. Not the usual tools of trade, but for Chief Forensic Medical Scientist Derek and Forensic Secretary Pauline they were just part of a normal day in the office inside the world-famous Department of Forensic Medicine at Guy's Hospital in London. Derek has played a pivotal role in investigating some of the UK's most high-profile mass disasters and murder cases. Derek's . . . work on murder cases, in particular, has seen him credited as a pioneer of forensic medical science, after developing . . . techniques that make it easier to secure a conviction and also identify a serial killer. . . . These . . . revelations will open your eyes to the dark world inhabited by those who investigate death and murder (typically most horrid), and unveil the secrets of how each case is solved.

Go behind the scenes to see how criminal investigators use DNA profiling to both catch criminals and prove the innocence of suspects.

Describes clues bodies leave behind about the cause of death, procedures for autopsies, and ways medical examiners form an opinion about how a death has occurred.

"An in-depth look at how medical examiners, pathologists, and other forensic professionals examine and identify victims to help solve crimes, employing real-life examples such as genocide cases"--Provided by the publisher.

Provides an overview of DNA analysis describing how DNA profiles are made, forensic applications to criminal investigation, case studies, and career potential.

Examines the influence of biotechnology and biomedicine on daily life and public policy, and discusses the legal system's involvement in the resolution of ethical concerns raced by biomedical advances.

It is 1941. While the war of chaos rages in the skies above London, an unending fight against violence, murder and the criminal underworld continues on the streets below. One ordinary day, in an ordinary courtroom, forensic pathologist Dr. Keith Simpson asks a keen young journalist to be his secretary. Although the horrors of secretarial work don't appeal to Molly Lefebure, she's intrigued to know exactly what goes on behind a mortuary door. Capable and curious, Miss Molly quickly becomes indispensible to Dr. Simpson as he meticulously pursues the truth. Accompanying him from somber morgues to London's most gruesome crime scenes, Molly observes and assists as he uncovers the dark secrets that all murder victims keep. With a sharp sense of humor and a rebellious spirit, Molly tells her own remarkable true story here with warmth and wit, painting a vivid portrait of wartime London.

A Massachusetts district attorney running for governor decides to use a radical new DNA technology to solve a long-ago murder, but his efforts only result in another outbreak of violence.

Explains how studying insects and their habits can help forensic entomologists gather evidence about crimes.

Profiles three deputy coroners from Pittsburgh, describing the methods they use to examine crime scenes and collect evidence to determine how people died.