18 tiny deaths the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
"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 creat...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Goldfarb, Bruce, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a 18 tiny deaths : |b the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics / |c Bruce Goldfarb ; introduction by Judy Melinek, MD. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a Eighteen tiny deaths |
| 264 | 1 | |a Naperville, Illinois : |b Sourcebooks, |c [2020] | |
| 300 | |a xv, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Lee, Frances Glessner, |d 1878-1962. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Forensic scientists |z United States |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Forensic sciences |z United States |x History |y 20th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Crime scenes |z United States |x History |y 20th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Criminal investigation |z United States |x History |y 20th century. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Biographies. |2 lcgft | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Melinek, Judy, |e writer of introduction. | |
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