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Since living things in compost bins, and rotting squirrels have been
discussed, I feel comfortable on bringing up this one...

I've been reading "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary
Roach. It is a hilarious look at what happens to cadavers that have been
donated to science. Some chapters include:

A Head is a Terrible Thing to Waste (practicing neurosurgery and plastic
surgery on the dead)

Crimes of Anatomy (body snatching and other sordid tales from the dawn of
human dissection)

Life After Death (human decay and what can be done about it)

Dead Man Driving (the ghastly, necessary science of impact tolerance)

And so on. It covers airline crash stories, army cadavers, crucifixion
experiments, cannibalism, and a few more hilariously approached gruesome
topics.

Now in paperback, a NYT best seller, and at your local bookstore...

Diane

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Danielle Conger

I've been reading "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary
Roach. It is a hilarious look at what happens to cadavers that have been
donated to science. Some chapters include:
Crimes of Anatomy (body snatching and other sordid tales from the dawn of
human dissection)
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There's a pretty interesting book along these lines called _Murdering to
Dissect: Grave-robbing, Frankenstein and the anatomy literature_ by Tim
Marshall. It's a cool historical literary/cultural studies book on early
medicine and Mary Shelley's novel _Frankenstein_.

--Danielle
http://www.danielleconger.com/Homeschool/Welcomehome.html

Dawn Adams

Dianne writes:
>I've been reading "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary
>Roach. It is a hilarious look at what happens to cadavers that have been
>donated to science. Some chapters include:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Read it already! Sort of like a primer as it just made me more hungry for information that wasn't in the book, but a good, fast read.


Dawn (in NS)


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