Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers / Mary Roach.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York : W.W. Norton, [2003], ©2003. |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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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?