Death's Acre

出版者:G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York

作者:bill bass

页数:320

出版时间:2003-10-27

价格:USD 24.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780399151347

具体描述

A pioneer of modern forensic anthropology reveals secrets of the world's first-and only-laboratory devoted to death.

Forensic science and murder investigations are among the most fascinating topics of our time. Dominating television and print media every season, both as fiction and nonfiction, the subject could not be hotter. As one of the world's leading forensic anthropologists, Dr. Bill Bass is the premier guide to this unusual world.

Nowhere is there another lab like Dr. Bass's: on a hillside in Tennessee, human bodies decompose in the open air, aided by insects, bacteria, and birds, unhindered by coffins or mausoleums. At the "Body Farm," nature takes its course with corpses buried in shallow graves, submerged in water, locked in trunks of cars. As scientific stand-ins for murder victims, they serve the needs of science-and the cause of justice.

For thirty years, Dr. Bass's research has revolutionized the field of forensic science, particularly by pinpointing "time since death" in murder cases. In his riveting book, he investigates real cases and leads readers on an unprecedented journey behind the locked gates of the "Body Farm." A master scientist and engaging storyteller, Bass shares his most intriguing cases: his revisit of the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder fifty years later; the mystery of a headless corpse, whose identity astonished police; the telltale bugs that finally sent a murderous grandfather to death row-and many more.

作者简介

比尔·巴斯，法医科学界的传奇，曾经参与数百案件，从小镇镇长办公室到美国联邦调查局。他创建了世界上第一个也是唯一一个专门研究尸体腐烂的实验室：田纳西州大学人类学研究所，并由于帕特丽夏·康威尔的畅销书《人体农场》而永垂不朽，比尔·巴斯博士曾经写作或者与他人合写两百多部科学著作，很多都是基于自己在破解谋杀案中的亲身经历。由于在教育方面的贡献，他已经理事会任命为年度国家教授（National professor of the year），比尔·巴斯博士目前居住在诺克斯维尔。

读后感

话说并不够恶心 文字的刺激力永远都不如图片更比不上动态的影片 还记得看那个恋尸癖的电影 里面两个人跟骷髅DO SEX的时候 吃眼球的样子 以及 讲手放在即将死去的兔子的胸口感受温度渐远的记忆 文字 与法医相比 似乎不值一提 但是之所以给三星 是因为其中给出了很多...

更多的是叙事性质的描述。越来越崇尚专业二字。就最近一年开始吧，非常喜欢了解方方面面的学问。同事桔子买的好，我都一定要学过来。我觉得专业很酷。可能和职业有关吧。作者把人身上这一把骨头研究到了极致，很值得敬佩。即使是叙事，也能从中了解到很多有关骨头的知识。从哪...  

不同于其他专业法医书籍 比尔巴斯显然除了解剖学外更擅长幽默 书中不时出现的幽默风趣增加了阅读的乐趣 “人体农场”这个名字源自他的法医研究室  

看了几章认为很失望 也许是因为各种各样的见证实录，还有宋慈电视剧看呆了 作者的人体农场那么诱人，却一直没看到，后面没看的章节就不提了 前面在挖头颅的时候总是在表扬自己有多聪明挖了多少东西，为人师傅将徒弟保护的多好，至于怎么挖都不仔细描述，光看了个牛加固~~ 好...  

很久以前，我曾经深信有来世。在父亲开枪自尽之后，整整60年间我都深信这点。后来安死了，接着安妮特也死了。突然之间，我一辈子的信仰，上帝啊，天堂啊等等，对我来讲都不再有任何意义了。我们只是有机体，我们诞生、我们活着、我们死去、我们腐败，仅此而已...