Time of Death : The Story of Forensic Science and the Search for Death's Stopwatch - Softcover
Despite repeated claims and breakthroughs, forensic scientists are little better equipped to establish with any real degree of precision the exact time at which a victim of crime (or indeed anyone else, were there no witnesses) died. Over the last two centuries, scientists and detectives have attempted to rely on body temperature, evidence of rigor mortis and decomposition, the decay of the vitreous humor of the eye, the stages of digestion of the body's last meal, the progress of the insects that prey of dead bodies, all eventually without total conviction. Death is a gradual and highly variable business, dependent on a myriad of factors, and the expert witnesses at the trial of O J Simpson could be little more precise than the ancient Greeks and Egyptians. Gloriously written and ghoulishly fascinating, studded with the details of crucial cases, this is true crime at its most fascinating.
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Jessica Snyder Sachs is a freelance health and science writer. Time of Death is her first book.
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- PublisherArrow (a Division of Random Ho
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0099435438
- ISBN 13 9780099435433
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Book Description Softcover / Paperback. Condition: Fine. First edition. Paperback. When detectives come upon a murder victim, there's one thing they want to know above all else: When did the victim die? The answer can narrow a group of suspects, make or break an alibi - even assign a name to an unidentified body. Cases can be won or lost on the claims of forensic scientists, in societies that retain the death penalty suspects can lose their lives. But outside the world of crime fiction, time-of-death determinations have remained famously elusive, bedevilling forensic pathology throughout history. Tracing her story from the Ancient Greeks and Egyptians, the author shows how criminal investigators and scientists have made use of an extraordinary variety of indicators: ghoulishly investigating rigor and algar mortis, rates of bodily decay, the contents of stomachs, the degeneration of eyes and infestations of blowflies and maggots. Today, scientists are approaching the problem from all fronts, using DNA testing and other high-tech investigative methods, while nature is proving as productive an ally as technology; plants, chemicals, and insects found near the body are turning out to be the fiercest weapons in the crime-fighting arsenal. The fascinating story of the 2000yr old search to pinpoint time of death, the book is also the story of what happens to our bodies when we die. With Further Reading and Index. 270pp. p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Nr. F. with no creasing to covers. Seller Inventory # 15257
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