专家证人：法医学受审（苏·布莱克) 法医人类学家 An Expert Witness: Forensic Science on Trial

基本信息

ISBN-13: 9781529960884

ISBN-10: 1529960886

Author: Sue Black, Professor Dame Sue Black

Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd

Imprint: Doubleday

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 400

Release Date: 13 October 2026

Weight: 468g

Dimensions: 237mm x 155mm x 31mm

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书籍简介

本书出自英国知名的法医科学家之手，阐释了法医学的本质、发展历程，并通过一系列里程碑式的案例，揭示了其令人震惊的未来走向。

执法部、科学和法律体系之间的关系错综复杂。当这种关系运作良好时，便能成就引人入胜的电视节目；同样，当这种关系出现问题时，便会成为引人关注且极具爆炸性的新闻头条。

在《法医学的生与死》一书中，法医科学家、解剖学家和法医人类学家苏·布莱克（Sue Black）以显微镜般的视角，审视了这些不同机构之间的关系，以及专家证人的角色如何影响着它们。

她通过一系列令人震惊的里程碑式案例，揭示了查找人员、科学家和律师这三个关键角色之间相互联系的优势和劣势，并深入探讨了以下问题：在哪些案件中，我们做出了正确的判断？在哪些案件中，我们又犯了错误？如果我们采取了不同的做法，正义的天平是否会向另一个方向倾斜？

苏·布莱克教授（Sue Black）以其敏锐而引人入胜的笔触，追踪了技术进步对资金变化的影响，以及我们竞争激烈的制度所带来的后果，并探讨了这门引人入胜的科学的历程，直至其不可避免的终结——以及它不仅可能对专家造成的影响，后来还可能对正义的实现方式造成的影响。

From Britain’s best-known forensic scientist, a book that explains what forensic science is, how it evolved and, through a series of landmark cases, the shocking truth about where it is headed.

The relationship between law enforcement, science and the legal system is a complicated one. When it works well, it makes compelling television. Equally, when it does not work well, it makes for compelling and explosive news headlines.

In The Life and Death of Forensic Science, pioneering forensic scientist, anatomist and forensic anthropologist Sue Black puts the relationship between these different institutions, and how they are all impacted by the role of the expert witness, under the microscope.

Through shocking landmark cases that expose both the strengths and weaknesses of the interconnection between the three key players in this act - the investigator, the scientist and the lawyer - she probes: In which cases did we get it right? In which did we get it wrong? And if we had done it differently, might the pendulum of justice have swung another way?

Incisive and compelling, following the impact of advances in technology to changes in funding and the effect of our gladiatorial system, Professor Dame Sue Black tracks the journey of this most intriguing of sciences through to its inevitable conclusion - and the toll it may take not only on experts but ultimately how justice plays out.

作者简介

苏·布莱克女爵士教授是世界的解剖学家和法医人类学家之一，同时也是兰卡斯特大学负责对外交流的副校长。

她曾担任英国法医小组在科索沃战争罪行查找中的首席人类学家，也是印度洋海啸后一批前往泰国协助辨认遇难者身份的法医科学家之一。

苏经常出现在媒体报道中，她的工作曾被拍摄成纪录片，她还主持了BBC 2频道广受好评的系列纪录片《历史悬案》。

2016年女王生日授勋仪式上，苏因其在法医人类学领域的杰出贡献而被授予大英帝国女爵士勋章。

她著有广受好评的《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书《所有遗物》。

Professor Dame Sue Black is one of the world’s leading anatomists and forensic anthropologists. She is also the Pro-Vice Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University.

She was the lead anthropologist for the British Forensic Team’s work in the war crimes investigations in Kosovo, and she was one of the first forensic scientists to travel to Thailand following the Indian Ocean tsunami to provide assistance in identifying the dead.

Sue is a familiar face in the media, where documentaries have been filmed about her work, and she led the highly successful BBC 2 series History Cold Case.

Sue was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to forensic anthropology.

She is the author of the critically acclaimed Sunday Times bestseller All That Remains.