Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers
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- 9780393324822
- 611 21 ROA-S
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IIITD General Stacks | Popular Science | 611 ROA-S (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 005522 |
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599.938 COX-H Human Universe | 610.289 GAW-C The checklist manifesto : | 610.924 THO-Y The youngest science : | 611 ROA-S Stiff : | 612 FRA-A Adventures in human being | 612.8 RAM-B Brief tour of human consciousness : | 612.8 TAY-B The brain supremacy : notes from the frontiers of neuroscience |
Includes bibliographical references (p.[295]-303).
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?.
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