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Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers
- Title
- Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers / Mary Roach.
- Author
- Roach, Mary.
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2003.
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- Description
- 303 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p.[295]-303).
- 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?.
- Call Number
- JFD 04-7992
- ISBN
- 0393050939 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2002152908
- OCLC
- 50912705
- Author
- Roach, Mary.
- Title
- Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers / Mary Roach.
- Imprint
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2003.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p.[295]-303).
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- Research Call Number
- JFD 04-7992