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100 1 $aEmsley, John.
245 10 $aMolecules of murder :$bcriminal molecules and classic cases /$cJohn Emsley.
260 $aCambridge, UK :$bRSC Pub.,$c℗♭2008.
300 $axxiv, 252 pages :$billustrations
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 218-222) and index.
505 0 $aAcknowledgments -- Things to bear in mind -- Milestones in the forensic analysis of poisons -- pt. I. From medicine to murder -- 1. Ricin and the rolled umbrella -- 1.1. Waterloo sunset -- 1.2. Toxicology and chemistry -- 1.3. Ricin in chemical warfare -- 1.4. Production and applications -- 1.5. Ricin poisoning -- 1.6. Detection and identification -- 1.7. Positive factors -- 1.8. Examples of ricin attacks -- 1.9. The murder of Georgi Markov -- 2. Hyoscine and the murder of Belle Elmore (Mrs. Crippen) -- 2.1. The unlucky Mrs. Crippen -- 2.2. Hyoscine (scopolamine) -- 2.3. Medical uses -- 2.4. Criminal use -- 2.5. Dr. Crippen arrives on the scene -- 2.6. The murder of Belle Elmore -- 2.7. The origins of Crippen and Belle -- 2.8. The murder -- 2.9. Arrest and trial -- 2.10. Tailpiece -- 3. Atropine and Mrs. Agutter's gin and tonic -- 3.1. "Deadly nightshade, dear?" -- 3.2. Atropine -- 3.3. Physiological properties -- 3.4. Signs and symptoms of poisoning -- 3.5. Treatment of atropine poisoning -- 3.6. History of atropine as a poison -- 3.7. Atropine as antidote -- 3.8. Atropine murders in fiction and in fact -- 3.9. The murder of Anna Buchanan -- 3.10. The attempted murder of Alexandra Agutter -- 4. Diamorphine and the Dr. Jekyll of Hyde -- 4.1. Dr. Shipman's addiction -- 4.2. Morphine and diamorphine -- 4.3. Chemically modified morphine -- 4.4. Dr. Harold Shipman -- 4.5. Suspicions aroused -- 4.6. The murder of Kathleen Grundy -- 4.7. Shipman's arrest and conviction -- 4.8. Postscript -- 5. Adrenaline and the near-perfect murders of Kristen Gilbert -- 5.1. One way to deal with difficult patients -- 5.2. Adrenaline (epinephrine) -- 5.3. The crimes of Kristen Gilbert -- 5.4. Murders and attempted murders -- 5.5. Kristen discovers adrenaline is not the perfect poison -- pt. II. So simple, so useful, so deadly -- 6. Chloroform and Mrs. Bartlett -- 6.1. How did she do it? -- 6.2. Chloroform -- 6.3. But is chloroform safe? -- 6.4. Non-anaesthetic medical applications -- 6.5. The abuse of chloroform -- 6.6. Chloroform as a murder weapon -- 6.7. The priest and the prostitute -- 6.8. The murder of Edwin Bartlett -- 7. Life & death & CO : carbon monoxide and the home-made gas chamber -- 7.1. The silent killer -- 7.2. The properties and uses of carbon monoxide -- 7.3. Carbon monoxide in nature -- 7.4. Physiological effects -- 7.5. Positive features of carbon monoxide -- 7.6. The deadly danger of carbon monoxide -- 7.7. The murder of the Garcia children -- 7.8. Margaret Jones's nightmare -- 8. Cyanide and the death on the Nile -- 8.1. The speediest of ends -- 8.2. The chemistry of cyanide -- 8.3. Cyanides in the diet -- 8.4. Toxicity of cyanide, and its antidotes -- 8.5. Cyanide as a non-accidental killer -- 8.6. The murder of Cheryl Lewis -- 8.7. The Tylenol murders -- 8.8. Analysis of suspect capsules -- 9. Paraquat and the poisoned gravy -- 9.1. Weeding out the unwanted -- 9.2. Paraquat as a defoliant -- 9.3. Paraquat as a poison -- 9.4. Murder by paraquat -- 9.5. The California dreamer -- 9.6. "I've made you gravy for your pie" -- 10. Polonium and the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko -- 10.1. A novel poison -- 10.2. Polonium -- 10.3. The assassination of Alexander Litvinenko -- 10.4. Assassination by poison down the ages -- Further reading -- Glossary -- Metric/imperial conversion tables -- Subject index.
520 1 $a"Molecules of Murder is about infamous murderers and famous victims; about people like Harold Shipman, Alexander Litvinenko, Adelaide Bartlett, and Georgi Markov. Few books on poisons analyse these crimes from the viewpoint of the poison itself, doing so throws a new light on how the murders or attempted murders were carried out and ultimately how the perpetrators were uncovered and brought to justice." "Part I includes molecules which occur naturally and were originally used by doctors before becoming notorious as murder weapons. Part II deals with unnatural molecules, mainly man-made, and they too have been dangerously misused in famous crimes. The book ends with the most famous poisoning case in recent years, that of Alexander Litvinenko and his death from polonium chloride." "The first half of each chapter starts by looking at the target molecule itself, its discovery, its history, its chemistry, its use in medicine, its toxicology, and its effects on the human body. The second half then investigates a famous murder case and reveals the modus operandi of the poisoner and how some were caught, some are still at large, and some literally got away with murder." "Molecules of Murder will explain how forensic chemists have developed cunning ways to detect minute traces of dangerous substances, and explain why some of these poisons, which appear so life-threatening, are now being researched as possible life-savers."--Jacket.
650 0 $aMolecular toxicology.
650 12 $aForensic Toxicology$xmethods.
650 22 $aPoisons$xanalysis.
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650 7 $aMolecular toxicology.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01024862
650 7 $aToxicologie mole culaire.$2ram
650 4 $aMolecular toxicology.
710 2 $aRoyal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain)
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