STIFF by Mary Roach ( 9780141007458 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

STIFF
THE CURIOUS LIVES OF HUMAN CADAVERS

By:

Mary Roach

Format:

Paperback

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£10.99

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ISBN 10:

0141007451

ISBN 13:

9780141007458

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Publisher:

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD

Pub. date:

1 July, 2004

Pages:

304

Description:

Everything you ever wanted to know about what happens to bodies after they die. In this exploration into the macabre, Mary Roach tells a story that reaches from medieval pharmacies, stories of 19th century body snatching, to the present-day Body Farms, and conferences on human composting.

Synopsis:

What happens to your body after you have died? Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise?Life after death is not as simple as it looks. Mary Roach's Stiff lifts the lid off what happens to our bodies once we have died. Bold, original and with a delightful eye for detail, Roach tells us everything we wanted to know about this new frontier in medical science. Interweaving present-day explorations with a history of past attempts to study what it means to be human Stiff is a deliciously dark investigations for readers of popular science as well as fans of the macabre

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