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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Reflecting on twenty years of investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, an NYC death investigator, the second woman ever hired for this role, shares how, in dealing with death every day, she learned surprising lessons about life--and how some of those lessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself"--
7) Death investigation in America: coroners, medical examiners, and the pursuit of medical certainty
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Taking readers inside the nation's preeminent Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the author, who spent ten years with the Maryland OCME, explores the year-by-year story of a pioneer in the field of forensic medicine that is now chronically in crisis.
Author
Publisher
Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologist's "rookie season" as a NYC medical examiner, and the cases--hair-raising and heartbreaking and impossibly complex--that shaped her as both a physician and a mother. Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. With her husband T.J. and their toddler Daniel holding down the home front, Judy threw herself into...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Barbara Butcher was recovering from addiction problems and unhappy relationships when she landed a job at the Medical Examiner's Office in New York City. The second woman ever hired for the role of Death Investigator in Manhattan, she was the first to last more than three months. The work was gritty and demanding, sometimes dangerous. And she loved it. In a voice full of attitude, a real New Yorker some might say, Barbara writes about what it was...
