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_aStiff : _bthe curious lives of human cadavers _cMary Roach. |
250 | _a1st ed. | ||
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_aNew York : _bW.W. Norton, _c©2003. |
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_a303 p. : _bill. ; _c22 cm. |
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504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (p.[295]-303). | ||
505 | 0 | _aA 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?. | |
650 | 0 | _aHuman experimentation in medicine. | |
650 | 0 | _aDead. | |
650 | 0 | _aHuman dissection. | |
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