Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-05
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0393324826
ISBN-13: 9780393324822
"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."—Entertainment Weekly 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...