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The poisoner's handbook murder and the birth of forensic medicine in jazz age New York

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Main Author: Blum, Deborah, 1954-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Poisoning > New York (State) > History.
Forensic toxicology > History.
Forensic sciences > History.
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Physical Description:319 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781594202438
1594202435
Author Notes:Pulitzer Prize winner Deborah Blum is a professor of science journalism at the University of Wisconsin. She worked as a newspaper science writer for twenty years, winning the Pulitzer in 1992 for her writing about primate research, which she turned into a book, The Monkey Wars (Oxford, 1994). Her other books include Sex on the Brain (Viking, 1997) and Love at Goon Park (Perseus, 2002). She has written about scientific research for The Los Angeles Times , The New York Times , Discover , Health , Psychology Today , and Mother Jones . She is a past president of the National Association of Science Writers and now serves on an advisory board to the World Federation of Science Journalists and the National Academy of Sciences.

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