Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers / Mary Roach.
Record details
- ISBN: 0393324826 (pbk.) :
- ISBN: 9780393324822 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0393050939
- ISBN: 9780393050936
- ISBN: 9781435287426
- ISBN: 1435287428
- Physical Description: 303 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2004, c2003.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Reprint. Originally published: c2003. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-303). |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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? |
Summary, etc.: | A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility. |
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Subject: | Human experimentation in medicine. Dead. Human dissection. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Slater Public Library - Griswold.
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Slater Public Library - Griswold | 611 ROA (Text) | 55555000234531 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |