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The Sherlock effect :

135111381X

1351113836

9781351113816

9781351113830

0815361947

9780815361947

The Sherlock effect :

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how forensic doctors and investigators disastrously reason like the great detective /

Thomas W. Young, MD.

Boca Raton, FL :

CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group,

[2018]

1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Forensic science is in crisis and at a cross-roads. Movies and television dramas depict forensic heroes with high-tech tools and dazzling intellects who{u2014}inside an hour, notwithstanding commercials{u2014}piece together past-event puzzles from crime scenes and autopsies.? Likewise, Sherlock Holmes{u2014}the iconic fictional detective, and the invention of forensic doctor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle{u2014}is held up as a paragon of forensic and scientific inspiration{u2014}does not "reason forward" as most people do, but "reasons backwards." Put more plainly, rather than learning the train of events and seeing whether the resultant clues match those events, Holmes determines what happened in the past by looking at the clues.? Impressive and infallible as this technique appears to be{u2014}it must be recognized that infallibility lies only in works of fiction. Reasoning backward does not work in real life: reality is far less tidy.?

Ingram Content Group

9781351113816

0815361947

Holmes, Sherlock-- History and criticism.

Holmes, Sherlock.

Detective and mystery stories, English-- History and criticism.

Forensic pathology, Popular works.

Literature and science.

Private investigators-- England, Fiction.

Clinical Decision-Making.

Diagnostic Errors.

Forensic Pathology.

Science in Literature.

Detective and mystery stories, English.

FICTION-- General.

Forensic pathology.

Literature and science.

Private investigators.

England.

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