Getting Away with Murder: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths

Stefan Timmermans, professor of sociology at UCLA, one of the world's leading medical ethnographers. His most recent book, Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths, is based on three years of observing medical examiners perform autopsies. His research bridges medical sociology and science studies. Specific research interests include how sudden, unexpected deaths are dealt with in Western societies and how change occurs in contemporary health care. Timmermans is also coauthor of The Gold Standard: The Challenge of Evidence-Based Medicine and Standardization in Health Care and author of Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR.