Stiff
Subtitle: the curious lives of human cadavers
By: Mary Roach
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.; W.W. Norton; W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780393050936
Subjects: Dissection; Experimenten; Autopsy; Lijken; Dead; Cadaver; Experiment; Human dissection; Human experimentation in medicine; Leiche
Description: A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.[295]-303).
Table of contents: title: A head is a terrible thing to waste: practicing surgery on the dead; title: Crimes of anatomy: body-snatching and other sordid tales from the dawn of human dissection; title: Life after death: on human decay and what can be done about it; title: Dead man driving: human crash test dummies and the ghastly, necessary science of impact tolerance; title: Beyond the black box: when the bodies of the passengers must tell the story of a crash; title: The cadaver who joined the army: the sticky ethics of bullets and bombs; title: Holy cadaver: the crucifixion experiments; title: How to know if you're dead: beating-heart cadavers, live burial, and the scientific search for the soul; title: Just a head: decapitation, reanimation, and the human head transplant; title: Eat me: medicinal cannibalism and the case of the human dumplings; title: Out of the fire, into the compost bin: and other new ways to end up; title: Remains of the author: will she or won't she?.