Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

9780141007458
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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



PRODUCT DETAILS :
ISBN : 9780141007458
BY (AUTHOR) Roach, Mary
PUBLISHER : Penguin Books Ltd PUBLICATION DATE : July 01, 2004
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom IMPRINT : Penguin Books Ltd
LANGUAGE : English AGE : General
PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback
DIMENSION : 198 mm x 129 mm
WEIGHT : 224 g

PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Mathematics & Science
Medicine & Nursing