The Bone Lady
Subtitle: Life As a Forensic Anthropologist
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: April 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9780807124048
Subjects: Anthropology; Biography: general; Criminal investigation & detection; Forensic Medicine; Women forensic anthropologists; Medical; Anthropology (Specific Aspects); Regional Subjects - South; Biography / Autobiography; Manhein, Mary H; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Forensic Science; Social Scientists & Psychologists; Biography; Physical anthropology; Criminology; General; Southern States; (Mary Huffman); Forensic anthropology
First sentence: "The Bone Lady" is the nickname I acquired from law enforcement personnel while working with authorities from most of the sixty-four parishes in Louisiana, several counties in Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi, and various agencies across the country.
Description: As director of the Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services (FACES) Laboratory at Louisiana State University, Manhein unravels mysteries of life and death every day. In The Bone Lady, she shares, with the compassion and humor of a born storyteller, many fascinating cases that include the science underlying her analyses as well as the human stories behind the remains.

Manhein, an expert on the human skeleton, assists law enforcement by providing profiles of remains that narrow the identification process when the traditional means used by medical examiners or coroners to conduct autopsies are no longer applicable - simply put, when bones are all that are left to tell the story. She assesses age, sex, race, height, signs of trauma, and time since death, and creates clay facial reconstructions.