Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers
| Book | Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers |
| Cover photo | Marc Atkins |
| Author photo/portrait | John Madere |
| Cover/Jacket Design by | Keenan |
| Manufacturing by | LSC Harrisonburg |
| Book Design by | JAM Design |
| Production Director/Manager | Amanda Morrison |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | Ney York, New York. |
| Copyright | 2003 |
| Pages / Font | 303 pages |
| ISBN 13 | 978-0-393-32482-2 |
| ISBN 10 | 0-393-05093-9 |
| Library of Congress Classification Number | R853.H8 R635 2003 |
| Chapters | Introduction ... 9 1. A Head is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Practicing Surgery On The Dead ... 19 2. Crimes of Anatomy: Body Snatching and other sordid tales from the dawn of human dissection ... 37 3. Life After Death: On human decay and what can be done about it ... 61 4. Dead Man Driving: Human crash test dummies and the ghastly , necessary science of impact tolerance ... 87 5. Beyond The Black Box: When the bodies of passengers must tell the story of the crash ... 113 6. The Cadaver who Joined the Army: The sticky ethics of bullets and bombs ... 131 7. Holy Cadaver: The crucifixion experiments ... 157 8. How to Know if You're Dead: Beating-heart cadavers, live burials, and the scientific search for the soul ... 167 9. Just a Head: Decapitation, reanimation, and the human head transplant ... 199 10. Eat Me: Medicinal cannibalism and the case of the human dumplings ... 221 11. Out of the Fire, Into the Compost Bin: And other new ways to end up ... 251 12. Remains of the Author: Will she or won't she? ... 281 Acknowledgments ... 293 Bibliography ... 295 |
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