| Description |
311 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"With a new epilogue"--Cover. |
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"Featuring a reading group guide"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-311). |
| Contents |
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? |
| Summary |
A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility. |
| Audience |
1230L Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 9.4 16 77823. |
| Subject |
Human experimentation in medicine.
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Dead.
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Human dissection.
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| ISBN |
9780393881721 |
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0393881725 |
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