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Download The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum PDF eBook free. “The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York” breathes deadly life into the roaring twenties.

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“The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York” is a captivating blend of 1920’s crime stories and the chemistry that made it all possible. Deborah Blum is the author of this book. Pulitzer Prize winner Deborah Blum is a professor of science journalism at the University of Wisconsin. She worked as a newspaper science writer for twenty years, winning the Pulitzer in 1992 for her writing about primate research. She is the author of Ghost Hunters, coeditor of A Field Guide for Science Writers. The title “Poisoner’s Handbook” belies the book’s true focus, the two amazing men at the center of each of the public histories of the poisons Blum writes about chloroform, arsenic, cyanide, mercury, carbon monoxide, radium, ethyl and methyl alcohols, and thallium.

Blum’s book is easy to read (though it assumes an intelligent reader), the chemistry is never overwhelming, and the two gentlemen that she chose to follow throughout the chemical boom of the Roaring 20’s led fascinating jobs filled with mystery, murder, death, ground brains and Bunsen burners. The book is not just about crime or homicidal maniacs who use poison as their weapon of choice. It is also about changing technologies, corporate greed, and egregious misuse of chemical compounds that borders on being comical to the modern reader. The book is well written (the crisp, non-academic writing is very refreshing – unlike the radium health tonics) and does not get overly bogged down in scientific terms. The author provides enough medical and scientific background to be relevant, but she presents it in layman’s terms.

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Name: The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Authors: Deborah Blum
Publish Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Genre: Medical
Format: PDF/ePub
Size: 1 MB
Pages: 336
Price: Free
ISBN: 978-0143118824