Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
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| Title | Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers |
| Author | Mary Roach |
| Year of Publication | April 17, 2003 |
| Language | English |
| File Format | PDF/ePub |
| Number of Pages | 320 |
Book Description
Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach’s classic, now with a new epilogue.
For two thousand years, cadavers—some willingly, some unwittingly—have been involved in science’s boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They’ve tested France’s first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender confirmation surgery, cadavers have helped make history in their quiet way. Stiff investigates the strange lives of our bodies postmortem and answers the question: What should we do after we die?
