Spook Science tackles the afterlife
Book - 2005
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- Published
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New York :
W.W. Norton and Co
2005.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Physical Description
- 311 p.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-311).
- ISBN
- 9780393329124
9780393059625
- Introduction
- 1. You Again: A visit to the reincarnation nation
- 2. The Little Man Inside the Sperm, or Possibly the Big Toe: Hunting the soul with microscopes and scalpels
- 3. How to Weigh a Soul: What happens when a man (or a mouse, or a leech) dies on a scale
- 4. The Vienna Sausage Affair: And other dubious highlights of the ongoing effort to see the soul
- 5. Hard to Swallow: The giddy, revolting heyday of ectoplasm
- 6. The Large Claims of the Medium: Reaching out to the dead in a University of Arizona lab
- 7. Soul in a Dunce Cap: The author enrolls in medium school
- 8. Can You Hear Me Now?: Telecommunicating with the dead
- 9. Inside the Haunt Box: Can electromagnetic fields make you hallucinate?
- 10. Listening to Casper: Apsychoacoustics expert sets up camp in England's haunted spots
- 11. Chaffin v. the Dead Guy in the Overcoat: In which the law finds for a ghost, and the author calls in an expert witness
- 12. Six Feet Over: A computer stands by on an operating room ceiling, awaiting near-death experiencers
- Last Words
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography