The Sherlock Effect: How Forensic Doctors and Investigators Disastrously Reason Like the Great Detective

ISBN-13: 9780815361947 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 268 str.

Thomas W. Young

Opis

Forensic science is in crisis and at a cross-roads. In courtrooms everywhere, innocent people pay the price of life imitating art, of science following detective fiction. In particular, this book looks at the long and disastrous shadow cast by that icon of deductive reasoning, Sherlock Holmes. In The Sherlock Effect, author Dr. Thomas W. Young shows why this Sherlock-Holmes-style reasoning does not work and, furthermore, how it can—and has led—to wrongful convictions.

Spis treści

1. Reasoning Backwards

2. Sherlock and His Successors

3. Categorical Intuitive Deduction

4. How Detective Fiction Turned Into Medical Science

5. Good Cop, Bad Cop

6. You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

7. Can’t Shake This Feeling

8. The Emperor Wears No Clothes

9. Broken Bones in Babies

10. The Unified Hypothesis

11. Failing the Infamous

12. The Deadly Bed

13. Failing the Numerous Not-So-Infamous

14. The Double Dip

15. Modern-Day Sherlocks

16. The Battered Football Player Syndrome

17. Tree People and Forest People

18. The Perils of Pediatric Forensic Pathology

19. Kayakers, Spider Bites, Jack the Ripper, and Speaking for the Dead

20. CSI, Adam Ruins Forensic Science, Forensic Tree Teams, and a Bridge in Melbourne

21. Confessions of a Former Chief Medical Examiner

O autorze

Dr. Thomas W. Young, a forensic pathologist and full-time forensic doctor for nearly thirty years, has testified in court over 460 times both as a prosecution and defense expert.　 He is a fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the National Association of Medical Examiners: two organizations that represent the mainstream of forensic science and pathology.　 He has written extensively and been published peer-reviewed journals. He served as a chief medical examiner successfully for nearly 12 years and is a former director of a training program in forensic pathology.　 As a forensic practitioner, what makes him uniquely qualified to write this book are not only his credentials, his research on real-world trials and case studies, his examination of current practices, and his close study of deductive and inductive logic. Thanks to his years as a chief medical examiner and as a current independent forensic pathology consultant, Dr. Young has a deep understanding of the problem about which he writes.