Death's Acre: Inside The Legendary Forensic Lab The Body Farm Bill Bass (howl and other poems TXT) 📖
- Author: Bill Bass
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* Translated by Brian McKnight; © University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, 1981. Quoted by kind permission.
* From The Washing Away of Wrongs: Forensic Medicine in Thirteenth-Century China, by Sung Tz’u, translated by Brian McKnight; © University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, 1981. Quoted by kind permission.
* For more information about UT’s forensic anthropology program—including body donation—see the program’s website, www.utk.edu/~anthrop/FACcenter.html.
* From The Presocratic Philosophers, by G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, and M. Schofield; © Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Contents
FOREWORD The Mayor of the Body Farm
CHAPTER 1 The Bones of the Eaglet
CHAPTER 2 Dead Indians and Dam Engineers
CHAPTER 3 Bare Bones: Forensics 101
CHAPTER 4 The Unsavory Uncle
CHAPTER 5 The Case of the Headless Corpse
CHAPTER 6 The Scene of the Crime
CHAPTER 7 Death’s Acre: The Body Farm Is Born
CHAPTER 8 A Bug for Research
CHAPTER 9 Progress and Protest
CHAPTER 10 Fat Sam and Cadillac Joe
CHAPTER 11 Grounded in Science
CHAPTER 12 The Zoo Man Murders
CHAPTER 13 Parts Unknown
CHAPTER 14 Art Imitates Death
CHAPTER 15 More Progress, More Protest
CHAPTER 16 The Backyard Barbecue
CHAPTER 17 The Not-So-Accidental Tourist
CHAPTER 18 The Bloody Beneficiary
CHAPTER 19 Ashes to Ashes
CHAPTER 20 And When I Die
APPENDIX I Bones of the Human Skeleton
APPENDIX II Glossary of Forensic and Anthropological Terms
Acknowledgments
Index
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