Author: Mary Roach
Translator: Kook-sung Kwon
Publisher: Segaesa
360 pages | 138*205mm
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About This Book
"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational,
and unexpectedly sidesplitting." --Entertainment Weekly
Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives
of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers - some willingly,
some unwittingly - have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest
undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space
Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the
Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new
surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery,
cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way.
In this fascinating, ennobling account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of
cadavers over the centuries - from the anatomy labs and human-sourced pharmacies
of medieval and nineteenth-century Europe to a human decay research facility in
Tennessee, to a plastic surgery practice lab, to a Scandinavian funeral
directors' conference on human composting. In her droll, inimitable voice, Roach
tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them.
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