"How forensic professionals determine the cause of an unnatural or violent
death."
Just how realistic are the autopsy scenes in television's "CSI"? Using
full-color photographs and detailed illustrations, Postmortem provides an
exhaustive expose of what really goes on in the autopsy room. The authors draw
on 20 real-life case studies to describe the postmortem team of experts, the
procedures they perform and the ways in which evidence is collected and
interpreted. There are profiles of all the experts involved, including the scene
photographer, the ballistics expert and the forensic toxicologist.
The entire postmortem process is described in step-by-step detail, from
photographing the body to