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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
(Hardcover, 2003)
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Author: Mary Roach
STIFF fascinatingly numerates the many contributions humans have made to science as cadavers. Roach ...
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0393050939
ISBN-13: 9780393050936
Apr 2003
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
303 pages
ALEX AWARDS (AWARDS)
Edition: 1
Language: English |
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STIFF fascinatingly numerates the many contributions humans have made to science as cadavers. Roach highlights some of the uses the living have found for the dead, such as charting human decay at a center in Tennessee and establishing the certainty of the Shroud of Turin by crucifying a dead body in a Paris research lab. With these investigative tales and more, STIFF breathes new life into the sacrifices the deceased have made for the rest of us., STIFF numerates the many contributions humans have made to science as cadavers. Roach highlights some of the uses the living have found for the dead, such as charting human decay at a center in Tennessee and establishing the certainty of the Shroud of Turin by crucifying a dead body in a Paris research lab. With these investigative tales and more, STIFF breathes new life into the sacrifices the deceased have made for the rest of us.
| Details | | Series: | ALEX AWARDS (AWARDS) |
| Size | | Length: | 303 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 16.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Roach has a keen eye for the perfect detail, an ear for the zinging quotation and a finely tuned sense of the preposterous."
(10/09/2005)
"Informative, yes; entertaining, absolutely."
Kirkus (02/01/2003)
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