Publication Date: May 2004 ISBN-10: 0393324826 ISBN-13 :978-0393324822
“In this year’s most interesting, one of the most unusual books. … Gross weight, education, and unexpectedly funny that terrible.” Entertainment Weekly ”
Stiff strange after the death of the life of our body is a strange compelling, often lively exploration. Two thousand years, the bodies of some willingly, some unwittingly, has been involved in the boldest scientific progress and strange career. They have tested the first French guillotine, riding a NASA space shuttle in Paris laboratory test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, was crucified, and help to solve the mystery, the TWA Flight 800. For a new surgery, heart transplant surgical sex reassignment surgery, the corpse has been together surgeons, making history in their quiet way.
In this charming and noble account, Mary Roach visits the bodies, for centuries, from the anatomy laboratory and human resources pharmacies of medieval and nineteenth-century Europe, a human decay research institutions in the United States, Tennessee, Laboratory in orthopedic practice good deeds, human compost Scandinavian funeral directors’ meeting. Roach told her funny funny, unique sound and fascinating story of our bodies when we are no longer with them.
