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Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393069198
- ISBN: 0393069192
- ISBN: 9780241965016
- ISBN: 0241965012
- ISBN: 0393050939
- ISBN: 9780393050936
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (303 pages) : illustrations
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2003.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 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 who 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? |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Summary:
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.
