| Title | : | Medical Detectives: The Lives and Cases of Britain's Forensic Five |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 374 |
| Publication | : | First published February 1, 2013 |
The development of forensic pathology in Britain is told here through the lives of five outstanding medical pioneers. Spanning 70 years, their careers and achievements marked major milestones in the development of legal medicine, their work and innovation laying the foundations for modern crime scene investigation (CSI). Bernard Spilsbury, Sydney Smith, and Professors Glaister, Camps, and Simpson were the original expert witnesses. Between them, they performed more than 200,000 post-mortems during their professional careers, establishing crucial elements of murder investigation such as time, place, and cause of death. This forensic quintet featured in many of the notable murder trials of their time, making groundbreaking discoveries in the process.
Medical Detectives: The Lives and Cases of Britain's Forensic Five Reviews
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3,5 Sterne
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A good book to start with if you know nothing about the history of forensics in the UK, and the landmark cases of the last 100 years.
Sadly, not especially well written, occasionally lurching from typical day to day modern English into prose and phrases more suited to a book from the 1920s or 1950s. I read books of all periods and it's quite distracting to be thrown around that way.
Also, as the lives and cases of these men were intertwined, but the author has chosen to tackle each man separately, constantly referring you from one section of the book to another yet reintroducing each case as if you didn't just read about it in the last chapter.
One is left feeling that there is a lot more to know, and hopefully this will encourage the reader to seek out other books afterwards, but one feels that a lot more could have been put into this work, had the repetition and over-long explanations been left out. -
Took awhile to digest this but I definitely think it was interesting and a quite fair and objective portrayal of the people involved.
