Unnatural causes /
by Shepherd, Richard, DMJ [author.].
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BookPublisher: UK : Penguin Books, 2019Description: 444 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781405923538 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 920 SHESubject(s): Shepherd, Richard, DMJ | Shepherd, Richard, DMJ -- Career in pathology | Forensic pathologists -- Great Britain -- Biography | Forensic pathology -- Great Britain -- History | Forensic pathology -- Great Britain -- History -- Case studies | Biography | BiographySummary: Dr Richard Shepherd is the UK's foremost forensic pathologist, his job to understand the deaths which may have no natural cause. From crime scene to court room, his findings are crucial to the pursuit of justice. His work has seen killers put behind bars, exonerated the innocent, and turned open and shut cases on their heads. Shepherd's obsession with revealing the secrets of the dead is personal. At medical school, while performing his first autopsy, he held the heart of the patient in his hand and thought of his late mother, taken too early by heart disease. He became driven by the challenge of finding the truth, of seeing justice, and by compassion: sometimes for the dead, but always for those they have left behind.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Book - Adult Paperback | Netherton Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 920 SHE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 003032775X |
Originally published: UK: Michael Joseph, 2018.
Dr Richard Shepherd is the UK's foremost forensic pathologist, his job to understand the deaths which may have no natural cause. From crime scene to court room, his findings are crucial to the pursuit of justice. His work has seen killers put behind bars, exonerated the innocent, and turned open and shut cases on their heads. Shepherd's obsession with revealing the secrets of the dead is personal. At medical school, while performing his first autopsy, he held the heart of the patient in his hand and thought of his late mother, taken too early by heart disease. He became driven by the challenge of finding the truth, of seeing justice, and by compassion: sometimes for the dead, but always for those they have left behind.
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