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Title: Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner by Michael M. Baden ISBN: 0-8041-0599-5 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 28 March, 1990 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.16 (31 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book!!!
Comment: A great book!! One of my all time favorites that easily explains complex situations and extremely compilcated medical jargon into a everyday conversation!! Great stories!! Mr Baden has a gift for allowing the reader to understand the trumatic events and terrible crimes we human- beings inflict on one another! Understanding the forensics science involved can surely overwhelm the common individual but not in this book as we learn from Mr. Baden! I would not hesitate to both endorse and encourage any one to read this book for themselves and not walk away disappointed! In my 9 years in L.A.County Cornoner's Office as a volunteer Forensic tech, I am more than happy to ask that Mr. Baden write at least another book to follow up this masterpiece!!
Rating: 4
Summary: If you're a forensics fan...
Comment: I myself am hooked on the genre. I watch the Tuesday nite forensics shows on the Discovery Channel like a dog watching fire trucks roll by. So I probably would have like this book regardless.
But, Dr. Michael Baden DOES spin a good yard. I fully understand and appreciate his unique abilities to spot details of a crime scene, and link them to his experiences and past cases, that help shed light on a crime scene. With uncanny consistency, he will identify the who, what, when, where, how, and (sometimes!) why of otherwise unsolved crimes.
He does lay on his ego a little thick at times, but not to the point where it detracts from the story.
Dead Reckoning is Baden's best work, b/c it really opens up the readers' eyes and mind to the various aspects of forensic science. Confessions is a good follow-up for readers, b/c it tells some good stories about how forensic science, and in particular, Dr. Michael Baden's expertise in forensic science, has triumphed over cases that are plagued by incompetence, politics, and lack of understanding of what the crime scene facts really mean.
I think the book reads best as a series of short stories -- reading one chapter at a time, flipping around for stories that capture your interest the most.
If you have already read Dead Reckoning, give this one a try.
Rating: 2
Summary: When great stories go bad
Comment: This book had amazing potential in its premise alone: the former Chief Medical Examiner of New York City gives us insight into the medical (and often political) twists and turns behind the scenes of highly publicized unnatural deaths. Unfortunately, this book turned out to be a HUGE letdown.
The writing was poor and often confusing. Not a smooth read by any means - very fragmented, scattered and random. The stories themselves pull you in because they are interesting, true and controversial, but then the author leaves you with about a dozen loose ends and unanswered questions. For example, in Chapter 11, he talks about the murder of Gail Morris. We are taken through the story only to be left hanging at the end. Why did Leonard Barco confess? Too many important details are left out. I feel like I only read half a book.
Then, there is the story of Miriam Weinfeld (Chapter 5). Baden claims that she could not have been raped because her hymen was intact, making her a virgin. This is misleading, since that is not a definitive test of virginity (it is possible for a small percentage of women have an elastic hymen, which does not break). So, for someone who does know that, that definitive statement is misleading. Little details like this - statements made without any qualifications - made me distrust the book. I am sure Michael Baden has some great stories to tell (and is obviously qualified to tell them), but the writing screwed them up. It's too bad...it could have been an incredible book.
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Title: Dead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers by Michael Baden, Marion Roach ISBN: 0684852713 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 04 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: What The Corpse Revealed by Hugh Miller ISBN: 0312975732 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes by Colin Evans ISBN: 047128369X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 16 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Forensic Casebook : The Science of Crime Scene Investigation by Ngaire E. Genge ISBN: 0345452038 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Dead Men Do Tell Tales : The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist by Michael Browning, William R. Maples ISBN: 0385479689 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 15 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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