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Stefan Timmermans

Postmortem

How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths

380 pages,  6 x 9  © 2006
Series: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries

Cloth $30.00

ISBN: 9780226803982   Published June 2006

Paper $18.00

ISBN: 9780226803999   Published April 2007

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Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Brokering Suspicious Deaths
1. Making the Case for Heart Disease
2. The Fifty-One Percent Rule of Suicide
3. Forensic Credibility at the "Nanny Trial"
4. The Perfect Crime
5. A Baby Died. Where Were the Parents?
6. The Organ and Tissue Trade
Conclusion: The Hope of Forensic Authority
Postscript: "How Can You Watch Autopsies?"
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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