The People's Pathologist

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Before there was CSI, there was Bernard Spilsbury. Books mentioned: — Taylor’s Principles and Practice of Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor — Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers — The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley — The Red Thumb Mark by R. Austin Freeman — The Crippen episode of this podcast — The Father of Forensics: How Sir Bernard Spilsbury Invented Modern CSI by Colin Evans — “Trial Of Thomas Smethurst”, British Medical Journal, August 27, 1859 — “The Case of Thomas Smethurst, Convicted of the Crime of Murder”, The Lancet, September 1859 — The Magnificent Spilsbury and the Case of the Brides in the Bath by Jane Robbins — The ""Brides in the Bath"" episode of this podcast — Bernard Spilsbury’s index cards at the Wellcome Collection — Some Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury and Others : Death Under The Microscope by Harold Dearden — Bernard Spilsbury: His Life and Cases by Douglas G. Browne and E.V. Tullett — “The rise and fall of celebrity pathology” by Ian Burney and Neil Pemberton in the British Medical Journal, December 2010 — “Bruised Witness: Bernard Spilsbury and the Performance of Early Twentieth-Century English Forensic Pathology” in Medical History, January 2011 To be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at the Shedunnit website, where you can also find full transcripts. Shedunnit is written and narrated by Caroline Crampton and edited by Euan MacAleece.