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Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers

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00520040806142249.0
008021028s2003 nyu b 000 0 eng
010 . ‡a 2002152908
020 . ‡a0393050939 (hc : alk. paper)
020 . ‡a9780393324822 (pbk. : 2004) : ‡c$14.95
035 . ‡a(Sirsi) 961379
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042 . ‡apcc
05000. ‡aR853.H8 ‡bR635 2003
08200. ‡a611 ‡221
1001 . ‡aRoach, Mary. ‡0n 2002162586 ‡0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002162586
24510. ‡aStiff : ‡bthe curious lives of human cadavers / ‡cby Mary Roach.
24630. ‡aStiff
264 1. ‡aNew York : ‡bW.W. Norton & Co., ‡c2003.
300 . ‡a303 pages ; ‡ccm.
336 . ‡atext ‡btxt ‡2rdacontent
337 . ‡aunmediated ‡bn ‡2rdamedia
338 . ‡avolume ‡bnc ‡2rdacarrier
504 . ‡aIncludes bibliographical references.
5050 . ‡aA head is a terrible thing to waste -- Practicing surgery on the dead -- Crimes of anatomy -- Body-snatching and other sordid tales from the dawn of human dissection -- Life after death -- On human decay and what can be done about it -- Dead man driving -- Human crash test dummies and the ghastly, necessary science of impact tolerance -- The cadaver that joined the army -- The sticky ethics of bullets and bombs -- Holy cadaver -- The crucifixion experiments -- How to know if yourđe dead -- Beating-heart cadavers, live burial, and the scientific search for the soul -- Just a head -- Decapitation, reanimation, and the human head transplant -- Eat me -- Medicinal cannibalism and the case of the human dumplings -- Out of the fire, into the tissue digestor -- And other new ways to end up -- Remains of the author -- Will she or wontđ she?.
5260 . ‡aAccelerated Reader ‡bUG ‡c9.4 ‡d16 ‡e16 ‡z77823
596 . ‡a3 5 6 7 8 10 12 15 19 20 21 23 24 26 27 30 32 39 40 41 45 54
598 . ‡aPOPULAR
650 0. ‡aHuman experimentation in medicine. ‡0sh 85062870 ‡0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85062870 ‡0(WEST)12586
650 0. ‡aDead. ‡0BSLW 24141 ‡0(WEST)8560
650 0. ‡aHuman dissection. ‡0sh 85062855 ‡0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85062855
948 . ‡a12/13/2002 ‡b05/19/2005
998 . ‡aa453249
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