Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.

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Title	Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.
Names	Roach, Mary.
Book Number	DB058302
Title Status	Active
Medium	Digital Book
Download Link	Downloadable talking book.
Narrator	Schraf, Kimberly.
Annotation	Journalist explores the role of dead bodies in science's "boldest strides and weirdest undertakings" throughout history and the twentieth century. Describes such productive, sometimes bizarre, uses for corpses as testing guillotines, studying plane and car crashes, and experimenting with organ transplants, plastic surgery, and other medical procedures. Bestseller. 2003.
Language	English
Local Subject	Science - 500
	Medicine - Human anatomy - 611
	Bestseller, NonFiction - BEN
	Science - History & Biography - 509
	Medicine & Health - 610
LC Subject	Dead
	Human dissection
	Human experimentation in medicine
Audience Notes	Female narrator. NLS/BPH
Publication Info	Washington, D.C. : (Potomac Talking Book Services, recording studio). 2006 (Potomac Talking Book Services, recording studio).
Original Publication	Recorded from: 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2003. 0393050939