Stiff, the curious lives of human cadavers, by Mary Roach
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Stiff, the curious lives of human cadavers, by Mary Roach
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Stiff
Nature of contents
bibliography
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38544250912705
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by Mary Roach
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Accelerated Reader AR, UG, 9.4, 16.0, 77823.
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 -- The cadaver that 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 tissue digestor -- And other new ways to end up -- Remains of the author -- Will she or won't she?
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