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  • Murder and the Making of English CSI

    de Ian Burney, Neil Pemberton ...
    A history of the origins and development of forensic science in murder investigations in early twentieth-century England.Crime scene investigation—or CSI—has captured the modern imagination. On television screens and in newspapers, we follow the exploits of forensic officers wearing protective suits and working behind police tape to identify and secure physical evidence for laboratory analysis. ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Global Forensic Cultures

    Making Fact and Justice in the Modern Era

    Edición de Ian Burney, Christopher Hamlin ...
    Essays explore forensic science in global and historical context, opening a critical window onto contemporary debates about the universal validity of present-day genomic forensic practices.Contemporary forensic science has achieved unprecedented visibility as a compelling example of applied expertise. But the common public view—that we are living in an era of forensic deliverance, one exemplified ... Leer más

    $55.79 USD

  • Poison, detection and the Victorian imagination

    de Ian Burney ...
    Series series Encounters: Cultural Histories
    This fascinating book looks at the phenomenon of murder and poisoning in the nineteenth century. Focusing on the case of William Palmer, a medical doctor who in 1856 was convicted of murder by poisoning, it examines how his case baffled toxicologists, doctors, detectives and judges. The investigation commences with an overview of the practice of toxicology in the Victorian era, and goes on to ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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  • Bellevue

    Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

    de David Oshinsky ...
    From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine.Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime victims, vicious psychopaths, assorted derelicts, lunatics, and exotic-disease sufferers. In its two and a ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

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  • Introduction to Forensic Psychology

    Court, Law Enforcement, and Correctional Practices

    de Stacey L. Shipley, Bruce A. Arrigo ...
    Introduction to Forensic Psychology, Third Edition, has been completely restructured to explain in greater detail how courses on forensic psychology are taught, making it more applicable as a textbook than previous editions. It also features more figures, tables and text boxes, making it a true textbook. What this book has that others do not is equal representation of criminal behavior, the court ... Leer más

    $56.99 USD

  • The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire

    Galen in the Roman Empire

    de Susan P. Mattern ...
    Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129 - ca. 216) began his remarkable career tending to wounded gladiators in provincial Asia Minor. Later in life he achieved great distinction as one of a small circle of court physicians to the family of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, at the very heart of Roman society. Susan Mattern's The Prince of Medicine offers the first authoritative biography in English of this brilliant, ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Cancer Virus

    The discovery of the Epstein-Barr Virus

    de Dorothy H. Crawford, Alan B. Rickinson, Ingólfur Johannessen ...
    The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was discovered in 1964. At the time, the very idea of a virus underlying a cancer was revolutionary. Cancer is, after all, not catching. Even now, the idea of a virus causing cancer surprises many people. But Epstein-Barr, named after its discoverers, Sir Anthony Epstein and Dr Yvonne Barr, is fascinating for other reasons too. Almost everyone carries it, yet it is ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • From Melancholia to Prozac

    A history of depression

    de Clark Lawlor ...
    Depression is an experience known to millions. But arguments rage on aspects of its definition and its impact on societies present and past: do drugs work, or are they merely placebos? Is the depression we have today merely a construct of the pharmaceutical industry? Is depression under- or over-diagnosed? Should we be paying for expensive 'talking cure' treatments like psychoanalysis or Cognitive ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Beyond the Box

    B.F. Skinner's Technology of Behaviour from Laboratory to Life, 1950s-1970s

    de Alexandra Rutherford ...
    B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) is one of the most famous and influential figures in twentieth century psychology. A best-selling author, inventor, and social commentator, Skinner was both a renowned scientist and a public intellectual known for his controversial theories of human behavior. Beyond the Box is the first full-length study of the ways in which Skinner's ideas left the laboratory to become ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room

    Travels Through Indian Medicine

    de Aarathi Prasad ...
    WINNER OF BEST POPULAR MEDICINE BOOK AT THE BMA MEDICAL BOOK AWARDSLONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 JHALAK PRIZEThe story of medicine in India is rich and complex: uniting cutting-edge technological developments with ancient cultural traditions.Aarathi Prasad investigates how Indian medicine came to be the way it is. Her travels will take her to bonesetter clinics in Jaipur and Hyderabad and the waiting ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Psychiatry in Indiana

    The First 175 Years

    de Elizabeth S. Bowman M.D., Philip M. Coons M.D. ...
    In Psychiatry in Indiana: The First 175 Years, authors Philip M. Coons, M.D., and Elizabeth S. Bowman, M.D., paint a fascinating, compelling, and vibrant portrait of the history of psychiatry in Indiana from its beginnings when Indiana was a territory up through present day, relying on meticulous research and personal anecdotes from former psychiatric employees of Indianas mental health facilities ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Human Body Decomposition

    de Marc Oxenham, Jarvis Hayman ...
    The fate of the human body after death is a subject that has fascinated enquirers, both in the scientific and legal realms for millennia. However, objective research into the causes and nature of human decomposition has only taken place in the last two centuries, and quantitative measurement of the process as a means of estimating the time of death has only recently been attempted. The substantial ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD