Do Corpses Always Float?

The most frequent forensics mistakes

Unfortunately, clichés often dominate our idea of forensic medicine. No one knows this better than multiple bestselling author Michael Tsokos. He explains common errors found in forensics and provides entertaining and suspenseful information about the means and methods of forensic medicine, his work at the dissection table in the autopsy room and the latest developments in forensics. Everyone knows the scene from the TV thriller: a dead man in a pool, floating on his back on the surface of the water, face up. Michael Tsokos exposes this representation as a dramaturgical trick and explains why drowned people sink to the bottom
or drift under the surface of the water, in a prone position, face down. The other errors about forensic medicine that Michael Tsokos explains are also known from crime novels of all kinds. 

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  • Publisher: Droemer HC
  • Release: 02.09.2019
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-27764-5
  • 176 Pages
  • Author: Prof. Dr. Michael Tsokos
Do Corpses Always Float?
Prof. Dr. Michael Tsokos Do Corpses Always Float?
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Prof. Dr. Michael Tsokos

Michael Tsokos, born in 1967, is a professor of Forensic Medicine and head of the State Institute for Legal and Social Medicine in Berlin. He is the best known German forensic scientist and regularly works as an expert in Germany and abroad, among others for the Federal Criminal Police, identifying the victims of terror attacks and mass disasters. He has written 26 books to date, all of them SPIEGEL bestsellers.  Follow Michael Tsokos on Instagram: @dr.tsokos