The Resource Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers, Mary Roach
Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers, Mary Roach
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The item Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers, Mary Roach represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Menasha Public Library (Elisha D. Smith).This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers, Mary Roach represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Menasha Public Library (Elisha D. Smith).
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 303 p.
- 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?
- Isbn
- 9780393050936
- Label
- Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers
- Title
- Stiff
- Title remainder
- the curious lives of human cadavers
- Statement of responsibility
- Mary Roach
- Language
- eng
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Roach, Mary
- Dewey number
- 611
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- R853.H8
- LC item number
- R635 2003
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Human experimentation in medicine
- Dead
- Human dissection
- Label
- Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers, Mary Roach
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-303)
- 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?
- Control code
- ocm50912705
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 303 p.
- Isbn
- 9780393050936
- Isbn Type
- (hc : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2002152908
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (Sirsi) ADE-9719
- Label
- Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers, Mary Roach
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-303)
- 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?
- Control code
- ocm50912705
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 303 p.
- Isbn
- 9780393050936
- Isbn Type
- (hc : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2002152908
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (Sirsi) ADE-9719
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