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Title
Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers / Mary Roach.
Imprint
New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Co., c2003.
PHS Non-Fiction
611 Roach
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DUE 05-11-23 Billed
Pittsburg 1st Fl Young Adult Non-Fiction
YA 611 Roa
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Available
Description
303 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Indexed In:
Library Journal 03/01/2003
Publisher's Weekly 02/24/2003
Booklist 03/15/2003; 02/01/2003
SciTech Book News 12/2003
Voice of Youth Advocate 02/2004
SLJ Dec. 2003
Kirkus 02/01/2003
Summary
Examines what is done with dead bodies and for what purposes and includes discussions on the army testing the effects of new rifles on cadavers, experiments with guillotines, and how dead people were the first to ride NASA space shuttles.
Audience
YA-Adult
YA.5
Subject
Human experimentation in medicine.
Death.
Human dissection.
Human anatomy.
ISBN
0393050939
