{"product_id":"9781913068271-unexplained-deaths-1","title":"Unexplained Deaths","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow one woman changed homicide investigation forever\u003cbr\u003eThe unlikely tale of Frances Glessner Lee and her revolutionary work in forensic science through the creation of the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, a series of dollhouse-sized crime scene dioramas that she used to teach homicide investigators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor most of human history, sudden and unexpected deaths of a suspicious nature, when they were investigated at all, were examined by lay persons without any formal training. People often got away with murder. That is, until Frances Glessner Lee.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrances Glessner Lee (1878-1962), born a socialite to a wealthy and influential Chicago family, was never meant to have a career, let alone one steeped in death and depravity. Yet she became the mother of modern forensics and was instrumental in elevating homicide investigation to a scientific discipline. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrances Glessner Lee learned forensic science under the tutelage of pioneering medical examiner Magrath. A voracious reader too, Lee acquired and read books on criminology and forensic science - eventually establishing the largest library of legal medicine.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLee went on to create \u003cb\u003eThe Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death\u003c\/b\u003e - a series of dollhouse-sized crime scene dioramas depicting the facts of actual cases in exquisitely detailed miniature - and perhaps the thing she is most famous for. Celebrated by artists, miniaturists and scientists, they were first used as a teaching tool in homicide seminars at Harvard Medical School in the 1930s, subsequently becoming an integral part of the longest-running and still the highest-regarded training for police detectives of its kind in America. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eUnexplained Deaths\u003c\/i\u003e, Bruce Goldfarb weaves Lee's remarkable story with the advances in forensics made in her lifetime to tell the tale of the birth of modern forensics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39490137423969,"sku":"9781913068271","price":10.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_26741260.jpg?v=1721216951","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781913068271-unexplained-deaths-1","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}