Stiff : the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Compact discs.
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?.
Read by Shelly Frasier.
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A good listen submitted by Aimless on July 20, 2019, 11:42pm The chapters can be choppy, so this is not a pool to listen to on and off, it is best for longer drives
PUBLISHED
Old Saybrook, CT : distributed by Recorded Books, p2003.
Year Published: 2003
Description: 7 sound discs (480 minutes) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781400100972
1400130972
9781400130979
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Frasier, Shelly.
SUBJECTS
Human experimentation in medicine.
Dead.
Human dissection.