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100 1 $aRoach, Mary.
245 10 $aStiff :$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?.
520 $aA 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.
650 0 $aHuman experimentation in medicine.
650 0 $aDead.
650 0 $aHuman dissection.
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650 22 $aDissection.
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