Coroner vs. Medical Examiner system. The NAS report suggests the Coroner system be eliminated. How would this affect small town America that has no M.E. system and larger cities like Las Vegas (Clarke County)? You must find one scholarly resource corresponding to your chosen subtopic within NAS Report and incorporate this research alongside the report in order to synthesize your own conclusions regarding the topic.
The National Academy of Sciences first addressed the state of death investigation in 1928. The National Research Council's (NRC's) Committee on Medical Legal Problems, whose members included Roscoe Pound, Dean of Harvard Law School, and John Henry Wigmore, Dean of Northwestern Law School, released a harshly critical report entitled The Coroner and the Medical Examiner. In its first four recommendations, the 1928 committee suggested the following: (1) that the office of coroner be abolished. It is an anachronistic institution which has conclusively demonstrated its incapacity to perform the functions customarily required of it.