Stiff The curious lives of human cadavers
Book - 2003
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- Published
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New York :
W.W. Norton
2003.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 303 pages : illustrations
- Audience
- 1230L
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9780393324822
9780393050936
- Introduction
- 1.. A Head is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Practicing surgery on the dead
- 2.. Crimes of Anatomy: Body snatching and other sordid tales from the dawn of human dissection
- 3.. Life After Death: On human decay and what can be done about it
- 4.. Dead Man Driving: Human crash test dummies and the ghastly, necessary science of impact tolerance
- 5.. Beyond the Black Box: When the bodies of the passengers must tell the story of a crash
- 6.. The Cadaver Who Joined the Army: The sticky ethics of bullets and bombs
- 7.. Holy Cadaver: The crucifixion experiments
- 8.. How to Know if You're Dead: Beating-heart cadavers, live burial, and the scientific search for the soul
- 9.. Just a Head: Decapitation, reanimation, and the human head transplant
- 10.. Eat Me: Medicinal cannibalism and the case of the human dumplings
- 11.. Out of the Fire, Into the Compost Bin: And other new ways to end up
- 12.. Remains of the Author: Will she or won't she?
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography