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Stiff [sound recording] : the curious lives of human cadavers

Böcker. Princeton, NJ : Recording for Blind & Dyslexic. 2007.

[This book] is [an] exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers ... have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. [The author] visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them. -Back cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p.[295]-303).
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 -- Beyond the black box, when the bodies of the passengers must tell the story of a crash -- Cadaver who 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 compost bin, and other new ways to end up -- Remains of the author, will she or won't she?