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The Professional Development of Forensic Nurses
By Julie A. Jervis, MD, RN

Victimology: An Investigative Tool and Crime Component

The Forensic Nurse as an Expert Witness: Document Preparation

Editor's Letter
New Protocols Need Your Attention

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Datebook

OCTOBER

7-11
Medicolegal Death Investigators' Training Course
Sponsored by the Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis
Mary Fran Ernst


http://medschool.slu.edu/mldi

9-13
IAFN 10th Anniversary Scientific Assembly: A Decade of Change

Hyatt Regency, Minneapolis, Minn.
www.forensicnurse.org

11-12
Forensic Dentistry Conference and Workshop

University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston Dental Branch, Houston
Veronique F. Delattre, DDS

13-17
Society of Forensic Toxicologists Inc. Annual Meeting

Hyatt Regency, Dearborn, Mich.
www.soft-tox.org
Brad Hepler,

14-18
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Course
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Fort Wayne, Ind.
Dawn Rice, RN, BSN, FNE

21-25
Pediatric Forensic Nurse Training Course
Sponsored by St. Mary's Hospital, Richmond, Va.

NOVEMBER

6-9
Advanced Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Course
Fort Wayne, Ind.
Dawn Rice, RN, BSN, FNE

7-10

Forensic Medical Investigation: A Comprehensive Review
Hyatt Regency Wichita, Wichita, Kan.


www.c2andco.com

DECEMBER

1-5
SANE/SART training

Marriott's Griffin Gate Resort, Lexington, Ky.
Laura Taylor


Book Review

DEAD RECKONING: THE NEW SCIENCE OF CATCHING KILLERS
By Michael Baden, MD and Marion Roach
Simon & Schuster, ; 288 pages

While most forensic nurses won't be on the trail of a murderer, "Dead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers" is an engaging, thought-provoking book that delivers the best lessons in anatomy and physiology blended with heartfelt yet objectively clinical explanations of forensic science. Famed forensic pathologist Michael Baden, MD, is back with new collaborator Marion Roach for another fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the process only to which medical examiners, cops and defense attorneys are privy.

Drawing from both obscure and famous cases, Baden and Roach explain the principles of forensic analysis, touching upon a variety of developments in toxicology, DNA, blood spatters, forensic entomology and forensic dentistry. Juxtaposed against the usual dry tomes encountered during medical studies, "Dead Reckoning" is a lively, compelling page-turner that draws in readers and escorts them through the morgue doors, to that stainless steel autopsy table, and into the bodies that tell tales, both literally and figuratively.

While the 11-chapter book retells fascinating accounts of some of the world's most notorious murders and explains the complicated forensic science employed, it never loses its insightfulness. Keen descriptions of autopsies are laced with anecdotes revealing Baden's compassionate, reverent approach to handling bodies; while passages that explore high-profile cases are accompanied by thoughtful analyses of the responsibility forensic pathologists have to the victims they examine, as well as to the science they serve.

In his 40-year career-including serving as chief medical examiner for New York City -- Baden has performed more than 20,000 autopsies and testified in more than 1,000 trials. "Dead Reckoning" is a deft chronicle of Baden's experience, observations and relationships with his colleagues that is at turns wickedly humorous and appropriately somber, but always provocative. In its emphasis on detecting, protecting and preserving trace evidence, the books holds important lessons for forensic nurses who want to be meticulous and exacting in their work. "Dead Reckoning" is a lesson in forensics that is easy for medical personnel and laypersons alike to digest, but its incisive precautions about sloppy science are hard to forget. --Kelly M. Pyrek

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