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Ethical Approaches to Human Remains by Kirsty Squires (Editor); David Errickson (Editor); Nicholas Márquez-Grant (Editor)
ISBN: 3030329259
Publication Date: 2020-01-02
This book is the first of its kind, combining international perspectives on the current ethical considerations and challenges facing bioarchaeologists in the recovery, analysis, curation, and display of human remains.
Blood, Powder, and Residue by Beth A. Bechky
ISBN: 0691183589
Publication Date: 2021-01-19
Blood, Powder, and Residue goes inside a metropolitan crime laboratory to shed light on the complex social forces that underlie the analysis of forensic evidence.
Blood Beneath My Feet by Joseph Scott Morgan
ISBN: 9781936239337
Publication Date: 2012-07-03
Death visits us all but for Joseph Morgan it decided to stay. In 1987 Morgan was estimated to have been the youngest death investigator in the US working in a major metropolitan area. Follow his life and career in this hard dose of Southern reality - in all its grisly details. Necrophiles, trailer parks and human cigarette lighters are all part of this slice of life from the morgue and the crime scene.

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