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All that remains : a renowned forensic scientist on death, mortality, and solving crimes / Sue Black

By: Material type: TextTextEdition: First North American paperback editionDescription: 352 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781950691913
  • 1950691918
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 363.2/5/092 23
LOC classification:
  • HV8073 .B555 2020
Contents:
Silent teachers -- Our cells and ourselves -- Death in the family -- Death up close and personal -- Ashes to ashes -- Dem bones -- Not forgotten -- Invenerunt corpus-body found! -- The body mutilated -- Kosovo -- When disaster strikes -- Fate, fear and phobias -- An ideal solution -- Epilogue -- The man from Balmore
Summary: Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalities due to war, accident or natural disaster. In All That Remains she reveals the many faces of death she has come to know, using key cases to explore how forensic science has developed, and what her work has taught her. Do we expect a book about death to be sad? Macabre? Sue's book is neither. There is tragedy, but there is also humour in stories as gripping as the best crime novel. Our own death will remain a great unknown. But as an expert witness from the final frontier, Sue Black is the wisest, most reassuring, most compelling of guides
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Non Fiction MVS Library Main room-Teen/Adult B- Nonfiction (Teen/Adult) TEEN 363.2 BLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 05/23/2025 4010479

Includes index

Silent teachers -- Our cells and ourselves -- Death in the family -- Death up close and personal -- Ashes to ashes -- Dem bones -- Not forgotten -- Invenerunt corpus-body found! -- The body mutilated -- Kosovo -- When disaster strikes -- Fate, fear and phobias -- An ideal solution -- Epilogue -- The man from Balmore

Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalities due to war, accident or natural disaster. In All That Remains she reveals the many faces of death she has come to know, using key cases to explore how forensic science has developed, and what her work has taught her. Do we expect a book about death to be sad? Macabre? Sue's book is neither. There is tragedy, but there is also humour in stories as gripping as the best crime novel. Our own death will remain a great unknown. But as an expert witness from the final frontier, Sue Black is the wisest, most reassuring, most compelling of guides

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