Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. 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 crucified 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 surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way.
In this fascinating, ennobling account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries—from the anatomy labs and human-sourced pharmacies of medieval and nineteenth-century Europe to a human decay research facility in Tennessee, to a plastic surgery practice lab, to a Scandinavian funeral directors’ conference on human composting. In her droll, inimitable voice, Roach tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them.
In a cross between investigative reporting and hilarity, San Francisco journalist Mary Roach examines and proves her claim that ‘death doesn’t have to be boring.’ And she proves it with remarkable aplomb, including the answer to the nagging question of what really kills you if you jump from the Golden Gate Bridge.
Stiff is highly readable, even if you’re squeamish (which I’m not), because of the macabre, bizarre, and esoteric nature of much of her material, as well as the gallows humor and dark hilarity with which she spices her writing. That ‘material’ would be CADAVERS. Dum-de-dum-dum. Your only risk is that you might die laughing. Read it. Actually, buy a signed first edition. I think this one will stand the test of time.
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Mary Roach covers every aspect and experiences of death in this book. Very interesting and informative book- she tells us about the purposes of the bodys and what they do with them and the many experiences that they go through when donated to science and how they help us learn and they can go to many uses to help mankind like being used in experiments and can help solve mystery’s about crimes or accidents and can help us improve products so thier safe for the humans that are alive. This book has many fascinating storys and is very good read. Highly recomended.
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Info
- Series: Alex Awards (Awards) ( Download PDF :
) - Hardcover: 303 pages
- Author : Mary Roach
- ISBN-10: 9780393050936
- ISBN-13: 978-0393050936
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (April 17, 2003)
- Language: English
- ASIN: 0393050939
About the Author
Mary Roach is the author of four previous books: Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, and Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. Her writing has appeared in Outside, Wired, National Geographic, and the New York Times Magazine, among others. She lives in Oakland, California.
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