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CSI: The Scenes Behind The Look

by Tina Weber and Stefan Timmermans | August 5, 2010 | Summer 2010

TV shows have piqued public interest in forensic work and how crime is done. But the attention hasn’t necessarily been good for those who work with corpses in real life. Medical examiners’ daily work remains mundane, misunderstood, and underappreciated.

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Tina Weber is in the department of sociology at the Technical University, Berlin. She studies the representation of the corpse on forensic TV shows.

Stefan Timmermans is in the sociology department at UCLA. He is the author of Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths.

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