Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Post mortem [videorecording] : the death investigation crisis in America / written and produced by Carl Byker and Lowell Bergman.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : WGBH Educational Foundation : PBS Distribution, c2011.

Description:

1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

In over 1,300 counties across America, elected coroners, many with no medical or scientific background, are in charge of death investigations. Nationwide there is a severe shortage of competent forensic pathologists to do autopsies. The rate of autopsies -- the gold standard of death investigation--has plummeted over decades. As a result, not only do murders go free and innocent people go to jail, but the crisis in death investigation in America is also a threat to public health.

Series:

Frontline series.

Frontline (Television program)

Subjects:

Forensic pathology -- United States.

Coroners -- United States.

Criminal investigation -- United States.

Documentary television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Byker, Carl.

Bergman, Lowell.

WGBH Educational Foundation.

PBS Distribution (Firm)

Other Title:

Death investigation crisis in America.

Frontline (Television program)

Notes:

Originally broadcast on television as an episode of Frontline.

Correspondent, Lowell Bergman ; lead reporters for Propublica A.C. Thompson and Mosi Secret, lead reporter for NPR Sandra Bartlett, lead reporter for Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley Ryan Gabrielson, lead reporter for Frontline Arun Rath.

DVD, region 1, widescreen, stereo, NTSC.

In English with optional subtitles in English for the hearing impaired.

ISBN:

9781608834396

1608834395

Publisher Number:

FRL62907

Other Number:

708651771

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

288605

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 614.1 Post mor

Medium:

[videorecording]