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Stiff, the curious lives of human cadavers, Mary Roach

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Stiff, the curious lives of human cadavers, Mary Roach

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-303)

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illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Stiff

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

50912705

Responsibility statement

Mary Roach

Sub title

the curious lives of human cadavers

Table Of Contents

A head is a terrible thing to waste : practicing surgery on the dead -- Crimes of anatomy : body snatching and other sordid tales from the dawn of human dissection -- Life after death : on human decay and what can be done about it -- Dead man driving : human crash test dummies and the ghastly, necessary science of impact tolerance -- Beyond the black box : when the bodies of the passengers must tell the story of a crash -- The cadaver who joined the army : the sticky ethics of bullets and bombs -- Holy cadaver : the crucifixion experiments -- How to know if you're dead : beating-heart cadavers, live burial, and the scientific search for the soul -- Just a head : decapitation, reanimation, and the human head transplant -- Eat me : medicinal cannibalism and the case of the human dumplings -- Out of the fire, into the compost bin : and other new ways to end up -- Remains of the author : will she or won't she?

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