Book Bearings
Stiff
- 304 pages · about 5 hours
- First published 2003
- 22 editions
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1 About this book
A hilarious and witty look into the history of using cadavers for science, grave diggers, and options to consider about your burial plan. A dark and uncomfortable subject made more palatable and downright funny.
- Human experimentation in medicine
- Experiments
- Autopsy
- Anecdotes
- Human Experimentation
- Anatomy
- Death
2 About Mary Roach
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
3 More by Mary Roach
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