Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
4 November 2004
Pages
304
ISBN
9780141007458

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

For popular science readers who like Six Feet Under.

What happens to your body after you have died? Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise?

Life after death is not as simple as it looks. Mary Roach’s Stiff lifts the lid off what happens to our bodies once we have died. Bold, original and with a delightful eye for detail, Roach tells us everything we wanted to know about this new frontier in medical science.

Interweaving present-day explorations with a history of past attempts to study what it means to be human Stiff is a deliciously dark investigations for readers of popular science as well as fans of the macabre

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