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Dr. Alan R. Moritz and Forensic Pathology fills in a missing chapter on the life, research, and lasting legacy of Dr. Moritz, providing insight into the development of modern forensic pathology practice by examining the momentous contributions and character of one of its true pioneers.
List of contents
Introduction
1. From Nebraska to the World
2. College and Medical School
3. Red Summer, 1919
4. Cleveland
5. Vienna
6. Getting to Harvard
7. Nazi Germany
8. Harvard Years
9. Burn Studies
10. Cocoanut Grove
11. 'Death on a Silver Platter'
12. Leaving Harvard
13. Going Hollywood
14. Back in Cleveland
15. Family Mystery
16. 'Classical Mistakes'
17. JFK
18. The Moritz Formula
19. Apartheid
20. Of Myth and Legend
21. Legacy
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
About the author
Rob Moritz is a veteran journalist who reported on crime, government and politics for newspapers in Arkansas, Texas and Tennessee before teaching journalism at the University of Central Arkansas. The third of four sons born to a bauxite miner and a saint, he was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and spent much of his youth in the small South American country of Suriname and in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, before moving to Arkansas in high school. His wife, Gwen, is a journalist who spent much of her career as editor of
Arkansas Business. They have two adult sons.
Summary
Dr. Alan R. Moritz and Forensic Pathology fills in a missing chapter on the life, research, and lasting legacy of Dr. Moritz, providing insight into the development of modern forensic pathology practice by examining the momentous contributions and character of one of its true pioneers.
