Doctors and scientists who built the medical investigation of death, from the thirteenth century Chinese handbook of forensic medicine to the leading pathologists and chief medical examiners of the twentieth century and the founders of legal medicine as a profession. A person belongs here when the cited source describes work on determining the cause of death, performing autopsies for courts or establishing forensic medicine. It excludes toxicologists, who have their own group.
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Mathieu Orfila (Wikipedia)
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regarded as father of modern toxicology
Song Ci (Wikipedia)
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was a Chinese physician, judge, forensic medical scientist, anthropologist, and writer
Wikipedia: Bernard Spilsbury
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was an English pathologist
Frances Gertrude McGill (Wikipedia)
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was a Canadian forensic pathologist, criminologist, bacteriologist, allergologist and allergist
Wikipedia: Frances Glessner Lee
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Frances Glessner Lee (March 25, 1878, January 27, 1962) was an American forensic scientist.
Wikipedia: Keith Simpson (pathologist)
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He pioneered forensic dentistry, and was prominent in alerting physicians and others in 1965 to a previously under-diagnosed form of child abuse that he termed battered baby syndrome.
Wikipedia: Michael Baden
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Michael M. Baden (born July 27, 1934) is an American physician and board-certified forensic pathologist known for his work investigating high-profile deaths and as the host of HBO's Autopsy.
Alexander Gettler (Wikipedia)
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Alexander Oscar Gettler (August 13, 1883, August 4, 1968) was a toxicologist with the Office of Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York (OCME) between 1918 and 1959, and the first forensic chemist to be employed in this capacity by a U.S. city.
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