Overall, this was good. Hempel frames the rudimentary beginnings of forensic science - specifically toxicology - within the narrative of a famous poisoning case of the time, that of the Bodle family, which resulted in the death of George Bodle, the rather wealthy patriarch. She sets up a rather...
So.... I think, maybe, I could win a few rounds of 17th/18th century Trivial Pursuit on the subject of early forensics, but other than that this was kind of a waste of my time after the first third of the book. So, so much information, but it was so disorganized... My impression of the book when...
When I saw this on my library's new Non-Fiction shelves, I simply had to pick it up. Apparently they'd picked it up in December of last year, but events lead me to seek out their new offerings last month. The whole of the non-fiction section of my library is blocked off while undergoing renovation.....
The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera is a book I have had for a long time that I wanted to read, but for whatever reason I just didn't pick it up. I am happy it finally moved onto the read side of my bookshelf :) I did expect the book to focus more on J...
bookshelves: autumn-2010, victoriana, medical-eew, history, sciences, nonfiction, play-dramatisation Recommended for: BBC7 listeners Read on September 06, 2010 ** spoiler alert ** John Snow is perhaps the only doctor ever to be considered the founder of two medical disciplines: epidemiology and...
bookshelves: autumn-2013, nonfiction, published-2013, radio-4, true-grime, poison, britain-england, victoriana Read from September 14 to 20, 2013 BOTWBBC BLURB: On the morning of Saturday 2nd of November 1833, the Bodle household sat down to their morning breakfast, sharing a pot of coffee. That...
BOTWBBC BLURB: On the morning of Saturday 2nd of November 1833, the Bodle household sat down to their morning breakfast, sharing a pot of coffee. That evening, the local surgeon John Butler received an urgent summons - the family and their servants had all collapsed with a serious illness. Three day...
Won through Goodreads. This book was fine. Some parts were better than others. I agree with the other reviewer/s who said that it seemed like the author had a lot of information that she wanted to include and just stuck it in. There was so much that only roughly all tied together. The main case ...
John Snow is perhaps the only doctor ever to be considered the founder of two medical disciplines: epidemiology and anaesthesiology. An early believer in the theory of contagion, he grasped the opportunity of a peculiarity in the water supply in London to gather quantitative evidence supporting his ...
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