Format:
Book
Title:
Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers / by Mary Roach.
Author:
Roach, Mary.
Call Number:
611 Roach
Publisher, Date:
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2003.
Description:
311 p. 21 cm.
Subjects:
Human experimentation in medicine.
Dead.
Human dissection.
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 -- The cadaver that joined the army -- The sticky ethics of bullets and bombs -- Holy cadaver -- The crucifixion experiments -- How to know if your̳e 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 tissue digestor -- And other new ways to end up -- Remains of the author -- Will she or wont̳ she?.
ISBN:
9780393324822
0393050939 (hc : alk. paper)
9780393881721