Corpse : Nature, Forensics, And The Struggle To Pinpoint Time Of Death (Paperback)

from porbecito

An engrossing treatment of a fairly esoteric question: after the discovery of a corpse, how do we determine the time of death? But Sachs takes this material and spins it into gold, leading the reader on an in-depth tour of the historical and scientific effort to answer this deceptively simple que...

from Meggo

A fascinating look at the various methods that we use to estimate the ever-elusive time since death, including rigor mortis, livor mortis, body temperature, insect activity, plant activity, and bacteriological decay. Although we know much more than we did at the turn of the century, frustratingly...

from brokenangelkisses

Jessica Snyder Sachs is an American professor who has experience of editing scientific magazines and writing for national publications on health and science. 'Time of Death' was her first book and she has since published a second about germs and bacteria. I spotted this book in a charity shop and...

from Sandra_Berglund

I found myself comparing this book to Mary Roach's Stiff, which isn't quite fair. Unlike Roach, whose book was as much a personal essay as an exploration of the topic of what happens to our bodies once we're done with them, Sachs takes a workmanlike approach to the somewhat related topic of foren...

from gillis.sarah

I read this book for a class and it was really interesting. It was more serious than Mary Roach's 'Stiff' (which also deals with a bit of forensic anthropology), but still an enjoyable read, and I did learn a lot about it. It has a lot of facts without being overly dense or boring.