Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

by mary roach | Science |
ISBN: 0393324826 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingperryfranwing of Elk Grove, California USA on 8/2/2019
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Journal Entry 1 by wingperryfranwing from Elk Grove, California USA on Friday, August 2, 2019
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach

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. 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.

Journal Entry 2 by wingperryfranwing at Elk Grove, California USA on Friday, August 9, 2019
This was a really fascinating and humorous look at the various things that happen to the human body after death. This included such things as dissection by anatomy students, studies on human decay, using cadavers as crash-test dummies to research automobile accidents, using them to study gunshot wounds, etc. There was also a lot of interesting information on related things such as body snatching which was prevalent in the days before bodies were donated to science for use by anatomy students. The chapter on how the human body and its excretions were used as medicine down through the ages especially by the Chinese was also engrossing (and gross) as well as the chapter on the possibility of transplanting a human head or brain.

Overall, this provided a myriad of information that I really hadn't thought too much about before including the various possibilities of what to do with your body after you die. Is traditional burial the way to go or should the body be cremated? But other possibilities are presented in the book such as donating your body to science (but do I really want to be dissected by an anatomy student?) or should I go with having my remains composted as people are doing in Sweden to be more environmentally friendly? A lot to think about!

Journal Entry 3 by wingperryfranwing at Wishlist RABCK, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Friday, August 9, 2019

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Journal Entry 4 by RNAi at Fairmont, West Virginia USA on Saturday, August 17, 2019
I received this from the lovely perryfran as part of the US/Canada RABCK tag game. I can't wait for the semester to end so I can have a bit of time to read this!! I am in medical school so books like this are right up my alley.

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