Format:
Book
Author:
Roach, Mary.
Title:
Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers / Mary Roach.
Publisher, Date:
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2003.
Description:
303 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Subjects:
Human experimentation in medicine.
Dead.
Human dissection.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-303).
Contents:
[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 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 won't she?.
Web Site:
Table of contents Web Link
LCCN:
2002152908
ISBN:
0393050939 (hc : alk. paper)
9780393050936 (hc : alk. paper)
0393324826 (pbk.)
9780393324822 (pbk.)
Other Number:
50912705
System Availability:
104
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
382282
Call Number:
611
Course Reserves:
0
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94