Late nineteenth-century St. Louis was the scene of myriad grisly deaths\, a hotbed for homicide\, suicide\, alcoholi sm\, abortion and workplace accidents. Dr. Sarah Lirley examines the role of the city&rsquo\;s Gilded Age coroners and their inquests conducted into these unexpected or suspicious deaths. Verdicts varied not only by the ci rcumstances of the deaths\, but also the investigating coroners. Their inv estigations and verdicts were shaped by family testimony\; training and ex perience (or lack thereof)\; and assumptions about the character of the de ceased. Dr. Lirley chronicles some of these fascinating cases in her new b ook "Sudden Deaths in St. Louis: Coroner Bias in the Gilded Age." Books av ailable for purchase after the program.
\nDr. Sarah E. Lirley is a h istorian who specializes in the history of women and gender\, nineteenth c entury history\, and the history of death and death investigations. She is an assistant professor of history at Columbia College. \;
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