Book
Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393324822 (pbk.) :
- ISBN: 0393324826 (pbk.) :
- Physical Description: 303 p. : ill ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 2004, c2003.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Bibliography: p. [295]-303. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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 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 compost bin -- And other new ways to end up -- Remains of the author -- Will she or won't she?. |
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| Subject: | Human experimentation in medicine Dead Human dissection |
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| Burns Lake Public Library | 611 Roa (Text) | 35198000603812 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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