Death's Acre: Inside The Legendary Forensic Lab The Body Farm by Bill Bass (essential books to read txt) 📕

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1931. The Loeb Classical Library® is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

* Translated by Brian McKnight; © University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, 1981. Quoted by kind permission.

* From The Washing Away of Wrongs: Forensic Medicine in Thirteenth-Century China, by Sung Tz’u, translated by Brian McKnight; © University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, 1981. Quoted by kind permission.

* For more information about UT’s forensic anthropology program—including body donation—see the program’s website, www.utk.edu/~anthrop/FACcenter.html.

* From The Presocratic Philosophers, by G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, and M. Schofield; © Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Contents

FOREWORD The Mayor of the Body Farm

CHAPTER 1 The Bones of the Eaglet

CHAPTER 2 Dead Indians and Dam Engineers

CHAPTER 3 Bare Bones: Forensics 101

CHAPTER 4 The Unsavory Uncle

CHAPTER 5 The Case of the Headless Corpse

CHAPTER 6 The Scene of the Crime

CHAPTER 7 Death’s Acre: The Body Farm Is Born

CHAPTER 8 A Bug for Research

CHAPTER 9 Progress and Protest

CHAPTER 10 Fat Sam and Cadillac Joe

CHAPTER 11 Grounded in Science

CHAPTER 12 The Zoo Man Murders

CHAPTER 13 Parts Unknown

CHAPTER 14 Art Imitates Death

CHAPTER 15 More Progress, More Protest

CHAPTER 16 The Backyard Barbecue

CHAPTER 17 The Not-So-Accidental Tourist

CHAPTER 18 The Bloody Beneficiary

CHAPTER 19 Ashes to Ashes

CHAPTER 20 And When I Die

APPENDIX I Bones of the Human Skeleton

APPENDIX II Glossary of Forensic and Anthropological Terms

Acknowledgments

Index

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