| Description |
7 sound discs (8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
Unabridged. |
| Contents |
A 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 -- Beyond the black box : when the bodies of the passengers must tell the story of a crash -- The cadaver who joined the army : the sticky ethics of bullets and bombs -- Holy cadaver : the crucifixion experiments -- How to know if you're 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 compost bin : and other new ways to end up -- Remains of the author : will she or won't she?. |
| Performer |
Read by Shelly Frasier. |
| Subject |
Human experimentation in medicine -- Sound recordings.
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Dead -- Sound recordings.
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Human dissection -- Sound recordings.
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| Local Subject |
BOOKS ON COMPACT DISC.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN BOOK AWARD [2006 NOMINEE].
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| Genre |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Frasier, Shelly, narrator.
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| ISBN |
1400130972 |
| Standard No. |
9781400130979 59999 |
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