Medical Mysteries and Histories: True Tales of Forensic Medicine
Nothing but holiday specials on TV? Missing your favourite forensic medical mystery shows?
The dark days of winter are approaching when sitting in a big, overstuffed armchair with a good true forensic medical mystery book while the snow falls seems somehow inviting. Here are some titles sure to make you shiver but not from the cold!
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Blood on the Table: the Greatest Cases of New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner Headline cases including a 1922 tale of Becker and Norkin who acuse each other of murdering Becker's wife, a surgeon who kills his rival's patients and the murder of a violinist backstage at the Lincoln Center. |
Blood Work: a Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution A 17th century tale of French physician Jean-Baptiste Denis who was found guilty of murder after he tranfused lamb's blood into a human who died several days later. But it was later discovered that the patient was poisoned likely by a cabal attempting to discredit Denis. |
Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius In 1809 in Vienna the head of the just-deceased composer Haydn was grave robbed. The skulls of many other famous people including Beethoven, Mozart, Goya and Swedenborg were also stolen, sold, studied or put on display. It was a time when the dubious science of phrenology, identifying genius through the study of bumps and ridges on the human skull, was developed. |
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Post Mortem: Solving History's Great Medical Mysteries Fascinating medical cases of 12 famous people including Alexander the Great, King Herod, Joan of Arc, Beethoven, Mozart, Akhenaten, and Christopher Columbus. A panel of experts attempt to use modern medical knowledge to diagnose their illnesses based on the medical evidence of the time. |
Pittsburgh pathologist Wecht lends his expertise on the John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe and the airline crash in Gander, Newfoundland cases. |
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York Witness the birth of forensic toxicology through the monumental careers of New York City's chief medical examiner Charles Norris and toxicologist Alexander Gettler in the 1920s as they solve chemical crimes. |
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