Deadhouse
Subtitle: Life In A Coroner's Office
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: April 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781578067435
Subjects: Murder - General; Medical / Nursing; Forensic Medicine; Vocational guidance; Medical; Pennsylvania; Medical jurisprudence; General; Death & Dying; Allegheny County; Coroners
First sentence: Fifteen minutes ago, Tracy McAninch saw her first dead body.
Description: Chronicles the real-life exploits of a diverse team of investigators at a coroner's office and the evolution of forensic medicine, from rituals performed over corpses to modern forensic pathology, in a firsthand look inside a big city coroner's office.