בחרו את שפת העמוד:
שפה נוכחית
Poisons and Poisonings
להגדלת הטקסט להקטנת הטקסט- ספר
This book will examine poisons, both natural and man-made menaces, and cases based on a particular poison as well as information about how forensic analysis is conducted.
| כותר |
Poisons and Poisonings : Death by Stealth / Tony Hargreaves. |
|---|---|
| מהדורה |
First edition. |
| מוציא לאור |
Cambridge, England : Royal Society of Chemistry |
| שנה |
[2017 |
| הערות |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Primitive Potions and Poisons -- 1.1. Ancient Experiments -- 1.2. Cleopatra's Cobra -- 1.3. Pythagoras' Potions -- 1.4. Mithridates' Mad Honey -- 1.5. Volcanic Volatiles -- 1.6. Arabic Arsenic -- 1.7. Monks and Mandrake -- 1.8. Renaissance Medicine -- 1.9. Parisian Poisoners -- 1.10. Father of Forensics -- 1.11. Rest Assured -- 1.12. Industrial-scale Killing -- 1.13. Baby Killers -- 1.14. Self-poisoning -- 1.15. Pussies, Puppies and Poison -- 1.16. Farmers' Fears -- 1.17. Gender Favour -- ch. 2 Chemical Chaos -- 2.1. Dosed to Death -- 2.2. Acute or Chronic -- 2.3. Soluble Cyanide -- 2.4. Inject or Inhale -- 2.5. Skin Deep -- 2.6. Distribution and Excretion -- 2.7. Poisons' Reactions -- 2.8. Chelates -- 2.9. Sequestering -- 2.10. pH Balance -- 2.11. Crystallised Kidneys -- 2.12. Electrons and Ions -- 2.13. Solvent and Solute -- 2.14. Block the Blood -- 2.15. Toxic Oxide -- 2.16. Protein and Ricin -- 2.17. Antidotes -- ch. 3 Animal and Vegetable -- 3.1. Vipers and Venom -- 3.2. Puffer Poison -- 3.3. Poison Frogs -- 3.4. Erection Spider -- 3.5. Box Jellyfish -- 3.6. Blister Beetle -- 3.7. Hot Beetle-spray -- 3.8. Malicious Microbes -- 3.9. The Black Death -- 3.10. In-house Bugs -- 3.11. Food Poisoning -- 3.12. Canned Corned Beef -- 3.13. Offensive Oysters -- 3.14. Cooked Ham -- 3.15. Food Fraudsters -- 3.16. Forensics Finds Foul Food -- 3.17. Foul Water -- 3.18. Dissolving the Dead -- 3.19. Botulinum for Beauty -- 3.20. Poisons from Plants -- 3.21. Strychnine -- 3.22. Aconite -- 3.23. Which one for Witches? -- 3.24. Puffs of Poison -- 3.25. Sherlock's Special Spirit -- 3.26. Poison Pellet -- 3.27. Lethal Leaves -- 3.28. Moulds and Mushrooms -- 3.29. Death Cap -- 3.30. Mushroom Metals -- 3.31. St Anthony's Fire -- 3.32. Penicillin -- ch. 4 Mineral Matters -- 4.1. Ghastly Gases -- 4.2. Underground Gases -- 4.3. Rotten-egg Gas -- 4.4. Metals -- 4.5. Arsenic -- 4.6. Napoleonic Tonic -- 4.7. Perpetual Pills -- 4.8. Quicksilver -- 4.9. Isaac Newton -- 4.10. Minamata Mercury -- 4.11. Yorkshire Witch -- 4.12. Plumbism and Poison -- 4.13. Painters' Poisons -- 4.14. Red Lead in Food -- 4.15. Evil Ethyl -- 4.16. Old Pope's Bones -- 4.17. Thallium Cream -- 4.18. Sodium Salt -- 4.19. Salt and Cyanide -- 4.20. Fluoride -- 4.21. Extra-terrestrial Toxins -- 4.22. Panspermia -- ch. 5 Poison or Medicine -- 5.1. Shipman Serial Poisoner -- 5.2. Marilyn's Barbs -- 5.3. Truth Drug and Severed Head -- 5.4. Lethal but Legal -- 5.5. Pennyroyal -- 5.6. Name Your Poison -- 5.7. Hooper's Hooch -- 5.8. Ethanolic Excretions -- 5.9. Food or Fuel -- 5.10. Tylenol Tampering -- ch. 6 Man-made Menace -- 6.1. Cyanide -- 6.2. Prussic Poison -- 6.3. Mad Monk's Orgy -- 6.4. American Gas Chamber -- 6.5. Cyanide and a Sedative Cocktail -- 6.6. Carbon Monoxide -- 6.7. Ten Rillington Place -- 6.8. Green Gas Cloud -- 6.9. Sarin and Soman -- 6.10. Bad Bugs -- 6.11. Woolsorter's Disease -- 6.12. Phosphorus -- 6.13. Acidic Attack -- 6.14. Pimlico Poisoning -- 6.15. Glue Sniffers -- 6.16. Stalin's Warfarin -- 6.17. Detergents, Hormones and Plastic -- 6.18. Chinese Melamine -- 6.19. Screenwash and Antifreeze -- 6.20. Phossy Jaw -- 6.21. Nitro Nasties -- 6.22. Agent Orange -- 6.23. Mad Hatters -- 6.24. Chimneys and Child Cancer -- 6.25. Canaries, Candles and Coal -- 6.26. Radioactive Girls -- 6.27. Radiation Poisoning -- 6.28. Chain Reaction -- 6.29. Further Fallout Fears -- 6.30. From Fossil to Fissile -- 6.31. Dirty Bomb -- 6.32. Assassination -- 6.33. Vile Volatiles -- 6.34. Warming or Dimming -- 6.35. Trial, Error and Improvement -- ch. 7 From Poison to Prison -- 7.1. Body Changes -- 7.2. Where's the Body? -- 7.3. Trowel or Shovel -- 7.4. Grave Facts -- 7.5. Instrument Surveys -- 7.6. Burnt Bodies and Bones -- 7.7. Spontaneous Combustion -- 7.8. Death and Decay -- 7.9. Brain Death -- 7.10. Corpse Chemistry -- 7.11. Dry Eyes -- 7.12. Livor Mortis to Rigor Mortis -- 7.13. Protein Putrefaction -- 7.14. Creepy Crawlies from Coffins -- 7.15. Metallic Implants -- 7.16. Peat Marsh -- 7.17. Hide and Seek -- 7.18. Grave Wax -- 7.19. Dehydrating the Dead -- 7.20. Body Farm -- 7.21. Every Contact Leaves a Trace -- 7.22. Incident Scene -- 7.23. Physical Evidence -- 7.24. Body Samples -- 7.25. Court Appearance -- ch. 8 Chemistry Clues and Crime -- 8.1. Trace or Bulk Analysis -- 8.2. Simple, Rapid Tests -- 8.3. Non-destructive Tests -- 8.4. Analysis -- 8.5. Marsh's Arsenic Test -- 8.6. Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) -- 8.7. Gas Chromatography (GC) -- 8.8. Mass Spectrometry (MS) -- 8.9. High-performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) -- 8.10. Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS) -- 8.11. Infrared Spectroscopy (IR) -- 8.12. X-Ray Analysis -- 8.13. Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) -- 8.14. DNA and Electrophoresis -- 8.15. Spot Tests -- 8.16. Roadside Checks -- 8.17. Poisoned Air -- 8.18. Reconstruction and Simulation -- 8.19. What do the Results Mean? -- 8.20. Probability -- 8.21. Sequence of Events -- 8.22. Poisoner Personality -- 8.23. Conclusion. |
| היקף החומר |
1 online resource (254 pages) |
| שפה |
אנגלית |
| שנת זכויות יוצרים |
©2017 |
| מספר מערכת |
997013194779405171 |
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