| Description |
7 audio discs (484 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
080400 |
| Performer |
Read by Shelly Frasier. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
| 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. |
| 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 -- The cadaver that 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 tissue digestor -- And other new ways to end up -- Remains of the author -- Will she or won?t she? |
| 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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| Genre |
Audiobooks.
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Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Frasier, Shelly.
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| ISBN |
9781400100972 |
| Standard No. |
9781400100972 |
| Music No. |
DD18125 Recorded Books |
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