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Previous Volume 356:2759-2760 June 28, 2007 Number 26

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(Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries.) By Stefan Timmermans. 367 pp. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006. $30 (cloth); $18 (paper). ISBN 978-0-226-80398-2 (cloth); 978-0-226-80399-9 (paper).

Stefan Timmermans, a sociologist who spent some years studying the ways of a medical examiner in a moderately large community, has a unique insight into forensic pathology and the modern-day medical examiner. His book is neither a textbook nor a novel but a subtle combination of both. It describes what forensic pathologists know and do as they attempt to bring clarity and objectivity to the unavoidably ambiguous process of determining the cause of a suspicious death. A key concept is that of forensic authority — in the areas of both public health and criminal justice — and the ways in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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