num_pages: 304
description: What happens to your body after you have died? Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise? Life after death is not as simple as it looks. Mary Roach's Stiff lifts the lid off what happens to our bodies once we have died. Bold, original and with a delightful eye for detail, Roach tells us everything we wanted to know about this new frontier in medical science. Interweaving present-day explorations with a history of past attempts to study what it means to be human Stiff is a deliciously dark investigations for readers of popular science as well as fans of the macabre.
language: English
title: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
titlecomplete: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
genres: Audiobook, Biology, Death, Science, Medicine, Adult, Medical, Nonfiction, History, Humor
ratings_count: 212232
series: Mary Roach's Curiosities
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Guardian First Book Award
category: Also Commended, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: ALA Alex Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Lincoln Award
publisher: Penguin