A Case Of Needing Serious Revision. For History of Forensic Science class.

A amusing and insightful essay on A Case of Need by Michael Crighton for a History of Forensic Science class - A Case of Needing Serious Revisions         Michael Crichton has penned some of the most engaging, timely, and thoroughly accessible tales to be published in the last twenty-five years. What his novels lack in literary merit and distinctive style they make up for in crisp plotting and edge-of-your-seat suspense. From alien viruses to regenerated dinosaurs, …showed first 75 words of 1998 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1998 total…situations, Crichton does manage to explore some of the more complex issues surrounding a medical crime.         However, through excessive detail and an unwillingness to weigh in sufficiently on some of the more important ethical dilemmas inherent to his tale, Crichton ends up obscuring more than he reveals. A Case of Need is much like a botched autopsy: all the guts are ripped out into the open, but we are able to learn little from them.