TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roach,Mary
TI  - Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers 
SN  - 0393050939 (hbk.)
AV  - R853.H8 R635 2003
U1  - 611 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Co.
KW  - Human experimentation in medicine
KW  - Dead
KW  - Human dissection
N1  - 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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