Spook
Subtitle: science tackles the afterlife
By: Mary Roach.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton and Co.; W.W. Norton
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Future life; Religion and science
Table of contents: title: You again : a visit to the reincarnation nation; title: The little man inside the sperm, or possibly the big toe : hunting the soul with microscopes and scalpels; title: How to weigh a soul : what happens when a man (or a mouse, or a leech) dies on a scale; title: The Vienna sausage affair : and other dubious highlights of the ongoing effort to see the soul; title: Hard to swallow : the giddy, revolting heyday of ectoplasm; title: The large claims of the medium : reaching out to the dead in a University of Arizona lab; title: Soul in a dunce cap : the author enrolls in medium school; title: Can you hear me now? : telecommunicating with the dead; title: Inside the haunt box : can electromagnetic fields make you hallucinate?; title: Listening to Casper : a psychoacoustics expert sets up camp in England's haunted spots; title: Chaffin v. the dead guy in the overcoat : in which the law finds for a ghost, and the author calls in an expert witness; title: Six feet over : a computer stands by on an operating room ceiling, awaiting near-death experiencers.