num_pages: 320
description: Beloved best-selling science writer Mary Roachs acutely entertaining morbidly fascinating (Susan Adams Forbes) classic now with a new epilogue. For two thousand years cadaverssome willingly some unwittinglyhave been involved in sciences boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. Theyve tested Frances first guillotines ridden the NASA Space Shuttle been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure from heart transplants to gender confirmation surgery cadavers have helped make history in their quiet way. Delightfulthough never disrespectful (Les Simpson Time Out New York) Stiff investigates the strange lives of our bodies postmortem and answers the question: What should we do after we die?
language: English
title: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company