Bibliograph

Stiff, the curious lives of human cadavers, Mary Roach

Type

Label

Stiff, the curious lives of human cadavers, Mary Roach

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-303)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

1230L, Lexile

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Stiff

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

50912705

Responsibility statement

Mary Roach

Series statement

Medical Humanities collection PAH

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, 9.4.Reading Counts!, 11.0.Accelerated Reader, UG, 9.4, 16.0, 77823

Sub title

the curious lives of human cadavers

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

Table Of Contents

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?

Target audience

adolescent

Classification

Creator