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US: W. W. Norton & Company, 2021. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach's "acutely entertaining, mo rbidly fascinating" (Susan Adams, Forbes) classic, now with a new epilogue. For two thousand years, cadavers - some willingly, some unwittingly - have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They' ve tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been c rucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgi cal procedure, from heart transplants to gender confirmation surgery, cadav ers have helped make history in their quiet way. "Delightfulâ??though never disrespectful" (Les Simpson, Time Out New York), Stiff investigates the st range lives of our bodies postmortem and answers the…
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by Mary Roach
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- Title Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
- Author Mary Roach
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
- Date 2021-08-31
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780393881721 / 0393881725
- Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.31 x 5.56 x 0.93 in (21.11 x 14.12 x 2.36 cm)
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- Topical: Death/Dying
- Library of Congress subjects Dead, Human experimentation in medicine
- Dewey Decimal Code 611
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