18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics /
Goldfarb, Bruce,
18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics / Eighteen tiny deaths Bruce Goldfarb ; introduction by Judy Melinek, MD. - xv, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Legal medicine -- The sunny street of the sifted few -- Marriage and the aftermath -- The crime doctor -- Kindred spirits -- The medial school -- The three-legged stool -- Captain Lee -- In a nutshell -- Murder at Harvard -- The decline and falls -- Postmortem.
"Frances Glessner Lee, born a socialite to a wealthy and influential Chicago family in the 1870s, was never meant to have a career, let alone one steeped in death and depravity. Yet she developed a fascination with the investigation of violent crimes and made it her life's work. Best known for creating the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, a series of dioramas that appear charming-until you notice the macabre little details: an overturned chair, a blood-spattered comforter. And then, of course, there are the bodies-splayed out on the floor, draped over chairs-clothed in garments that Lee lovingly knit with sewing pins. Lee developed a system that used the Nutshells dioramas to train law enforcement officers to investigate violent crimes, and her methods are still used today. 18 Tiny Deaths is the story of a woman who overcame the limitations and expectations imposed by her social status and pushed forward an entirely new branch of science that we still use today"--
9781492680475 1492680478
2019031080
Lee, Frances Glessner, 1878-1962.
Forensic scientists--United States--Biography.
Forensic sciences--History--United States--20th century.
Crime scenes--History--United States--20th century.
Criminal investigation--History--United States--20th century.
Biographies.
18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics / Eighteen tiny deaths Bruce Goldfarb ; introduction by Judy Melinek, MD. - xv, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Legal medicine -- The sunny street of the sifted few -- Marriage and the aftermath -- The crime doctor -- Kindred spirits -- The medial school -- The three-legged stool -- Captain Lee -- In a nutshell -- Murder at Harvard -- The decline and falls -- Postmortem.
"Frances Glessner Lee, born a socialite to a wealthy and influential Chicago family in the 1870s, was never meant to have a career, let alone one steeped in death and depravity. Yet she developed a fascination with the investigation of violent crimes and made it her life's work. Best known for creating the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, a series of dioramas that appear charming-until you notice the macabre little details: an overturned chair, a blood-spattered comforter. And then, of course, there are the bodies-splayed out on the floor, draped over chairs-clothed in garments that Lee lovingly knit with sewing pins. Lee developed a system that used the Nutshells dioramas to train law enforcement officers to investigate violent crimes, and her methods are still used today. 18 Tiny Deaths is the story of a woman who overcame the limitations and expectations imposed by her social status and pushed forward an entirely new branch of science that we still use today"--
9781492680475 1492680478
2019031080
Lee, Frances Glessner, 1878-1962.
Forensic scientists--United States--Biography.
Forensic sciences--History--United States--20th century.
Crime scenes--History--United States--20th century.
Criminal investigation--History--United States--20th century.
Biographies.