Stiff

The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2004
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-100745-8 (ISBN)

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Everything you ever wanted to know about what happens to bodies after they die. In this exploration into the macabre, Mary Roach tells a story that reaches from medieval pharmacies, stories of 19th century body snatching, to the present-day Body Farms, and conferences on human composting.

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.

'Spry, common, sharp-witted survey brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "Life after death"' Sunday Times

'One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year' Entertainment Weekly

'Every chapter packed with more arresting details elegantly humourously expressed than one can hope for' Sunday Telegraph

Mary Roach is a journalist. She has written for Salon, Wired, GQ, Discover, Vogue and the New York Times Magazine. This is her first book.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.7.2004
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	224 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturwissenschaft
Themenwelt	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Anatomie / Neuroanatomie
ISBN-10	0-14-100745-1 / 0141007451
ISBN-13	978-0-14-100745-8 / 9780141007458
Zustand	Neuware