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Fink provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina-- and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients...

There has been a homocide. A victim lies dead. The police seal off the crime scene and call for the medical examiner. In The Body as Evidence you get the chance to step inside the world of the forensic experts who investigate corpses and skeletons.

"Presents an introduction to forensic science, explaining how postmortem examinations can reveal evidence that leads to crimes and other mysteries being solved, describes how the human body records details of a crime through cuts, wounds, bruises, fingerprints, and blood."--

"Sometimes detectives get the glory of being the crime solvers, but the true heroes are the scientists who give them the information they need to do their job. Forensic pathologists are experts in determining a person's cause of death. This unique book is part narrative and part science text, explaining how pathologists use their knowledge of the human body to help solve mysteries. Readers will learn about the different aspects of this fascinating...

Set in the medieval town of Shrewsbury, this is the third in the compelling "Martha Gunn" series-When a woman arrives in A and E clutching a child in a pink blanket, Martha Gunn is not quite ready to make the discovery that the evening has in store for her. The baby is dead, and not only that, it has been mummified. Post mortem reveals the child to be a new born, deceased for over five years and, despite the mysterious woman's protestations that it...