American Autopsy: One Medical Examiner's Decades-Long Fight for Racial Justice in a Broken Legal System
Michael M. Baden, MD
Aug 2023 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Tom Perkins
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Dr. Michael Baden has been involved in some of the most high-profile civil rights and police brutality cases in United States history, from the government's 1976 re-investigation of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the 2014 death of Michael Brown, whose case sparked the initial Ferguson protests that grew into the Black Lives Matter movement. The playbook hasn't changed since 1979, when Dr. Baden was demoted from his job as New York City's Chief Medical Examiner after ruling that the death of a Black man in police custody was a homicide. So in 2020 when the Floyd family, wary of the same system that oversaw George Floyd's death, needed a second opinion-Dr. Baden is who they called. In these pages, Dr. Baden chronicles his six decades on the front lines of the fight for accountability within the legal system. In the process, he brings to life the political issues that go on in the wake of often unrecorded fatal police encounters and the standoff between law enforcement and those they are sworn to protect. Full of behind-the-scenes drama and surprising revelations, American Autopsy is both timely and crucial for this turning point in our nation's history.
About the author
Michael M. Baden, MD, is a physician, former Chief Medical Examiner of New York City and former Chief Forensic Pathologist for the New York State Police. He has written Unnatural Death, Confessions of a Medical Examiner, Dead Reckoning, the New Science of Catching Killers, Remains Silent, and Skeleton Justice.
An award-winning audio engineer for over forty years, Tom Perkins has expanded his skills to narrating and has more than sixty titles to his credit. He learned by working with the world's best voice talent during his career, and he continues to engineer a variety of projects.
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