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010 _a 2002152908
020 _a0393050939 (hbk.)
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050 0 0 _aR853.H8
_bR635 2003
082 0 0 _a611 ROA
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100 1 _aRoach, Mary.
245 1 0 _aStiff :
_bthe curious lives of human cadavers /
_cMary Roach.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bW.W. Norton & Co.,
_cc2003.
300 _a303 p. :
_bill. ;
_c22 cm.
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.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy038/2002152908.html
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