Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (563 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0001O356G |
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| Number of Pages | : | 409 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year.Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."Entertainment WeeklyStiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadaverssome willingly, some unwittinglyhave been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them.
Marti said Morbid yet entertaining. Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers is an example of a morbid topic turned into a page turning and ironically uplifting read. Stiff is very informative on the history and uses of cadavers while also providing entertainment through Roach’s unique style of writing. Additionally, the book contains numerous gory stories about blood and. "Funny, thoughtful, profound, and surprisingly enjoyable for a book about dead bodies" according to Josh Mauthe. Having read Mary Roach’s newest book, Grunt, in which she talks about the science of keeping soldiers alive, I decided to read her first one, Stiff, for two reasons. One was to see how much she’d changed as an author, but two – and the bigger reason – was a fascination with the subject. Stiff‘s subtitle is The Cur. Joanne Cucinello said Poe Would Have Devoured This .. Not a favorite subject for most people, but I found Mary Roach's book so fascinating. Her research and up close investigating blew me away!She has a dry sense of humor which lightened up things and I found her amusing and very real, considering the dark subject matter. I had absolutely no idea what went on with donated human remains for resear
Roach has a fabulous eye and a wonderful voice as she describes such macabre situations as a plastic surgery seminar with doctors practicing face-lifts on decapitated human heads and her trip to China in search of the cannibalistic dumpling makers. From Publishers Weekly "Uproariously funny" doesn't seem a likely description for a book on cadavers. Roach delves into the many productive uses to which cadavers have been put, from medical experimentation to applications in transportation safety research (in a chapter archly called "Dead Man Driving") to work by forensic scientists quantifying rates of decay under a wide array of bizarre circumstances. Most of your time is spent lying on your back"), it is clear that she's taking a unique approach to issues surrounding death. However, Roach, a Salon a