Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Co.,
[2003]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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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
- Beyond the black box: when the bodies of the passengers must tell the story of a crash
- The cadaver who 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 compost bin: and other new ways to end up
- Remains of the author: will she or won't she?.