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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 In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them. New Download [ Stiff ] By [ Mary Roach ] – kino-fada.fr If you can t cope with the idea of death without a hearty dose of euphemism this probably isn t going to be the book for you.When I became an archivist at the City of Melbourne a very dear friend of mine became a technician at the city Morgue I figured at the time he had watched a couple of episodes too many of Quincy M.E and that he would find...Mary Roach writes about what happens when you donate your body to science Hilarity ensues Well, maybe not hilarity but it is a good dose of edutainment.Way back around the time the earth s crust cooled and life spread across the planet, late 1994 or early 1995, I should think, I visited a chiropractic college with the rest of my Advanced Biology class This trip was memorable to me for three reasons 1 It was the first time I experienced an excruciating caffeine withdrawal headache2 It was th Mary Roach writes about what happens when you donate your body to science Hilarity ensues Well, maybe not hilarity but it is a good dose of edutainment.Way back around the time the earth s crust cooled and life spread across the planet, late 1994 or early 1995, I should think, I visited a chiropractic college with the rest of my Advanced Biology class This trip was memorable to me for three reasons 1 It was the first time I experienced an excruciating caffeine withdrawal headache2 It was the first time I saw a human cadaver3 I smoked five of my classmates playing pool in the student lounge at lunch.Obviously, 2 is the one...In my nonfiction phase during the year, I grabbed this one and after finishing it, regretted its purchase The book is about medical use of corpses and the human body, present day and in the past The subject matter is extremely interesting, and some of the methods, tests, and history behind human body experiments is worth the read The book makes you want to be an organ donor, or want to donate your body to medical science The problem is that the author is one of the WORST writers I have ever In my nonfiction phase during the year, I grabbed this one and after finishing it, regretted...Laugh out loud funny is the way to go if you want to learnthan you realized might be worth knowing about dead bodies It made me greatly disposed to finding out what else Roach has written, before I become a ...First read of 2017 complete It was a good one 4.5 stars.Who knew that a book about what happens to our bodies after we die could be so interesting This book covers everything to the horrific to the incredibly fascinating This book may not be for the squeamish, but I think Roach did a great job combining information and humor in a respectful manner to make iteasily accessible to a wider audience.I recently helped to prepare a funeral plan for my Mother She is still alive, but it was s First read of 2017 complete It was a good one 4.5 stars.Who knew that a book about what happens to our bodies after we die could be so interesting This book covers everything to the horrific to the incredibly fascinating This book may not be for the squeamish, but I think Roach did a great job combining information and humor in a respectful manner to make iteasily accessible to a wider audience.I recently helped to prepare a funeral plan for my Mother She is still alive, but it was suggested that we prepare ahead of time to make sure that all wishes are met and there is no scrambling when the event happens to figure out what is wanted and where the money comes from less stressful for all After reading this book, I am not saying I will go back and change any of our decisions, but it definitely gave me a lot of think...Mary Roach details a lot of uses for human cadavers in this book, but she missed a major one As Weekend At Bernies taught us, you can always use the corpse of your boss to scam your way into a free weekend at a beach house That scientific research is all well and good, but there s nothing in here at all about the best ways to simulate a life like corpse for your own selfish purposes I learnedfrom Andrew McCarthy than I did reading this Ah, but seriously folks This is the second book I Mary Roach details a lot of uses for human cadavers in this book, but she missed a major one As Weekend At Bernies taught us, you can always use the corpse of your boss to scam your way into a free weekend at a beach house That scientific research is all well and good, but there s nothing in here at all about the best ways to simulate a life like corpse for your own selfish purposes I learnedfrom Andrew McCarthy than I did reading this Ah, but seriously folks This is the second book I ve read by Roach, and I admire the way that she can take touchy and gross subjects like corpses in this one or human feces in Packing for Mars, treat them seriously but still manage to keep a sense of humor about them While she always has one eye on the science, she never uses it to ...Fascinating, touching and surprisingly wholesome considering it s about dead bodies Many people will find this book disrespectful There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say Ah, but there is. Mary Roach brings cadavers into a whole new, sometimes painfully bright, light We follow her as she attends autopsies and medical discussions We learn what happens to bodies as they decompose on the field, under the field and in so, so many places The way I see it, being dead is not terri Fascinating, touching and surprisingly wholesome considering it s about dead bodies Many people will find this book disrespectf...Find all of my reviews atCadavers are our superheroes They brave fire without flinching, withstand falls from tall buildings and head on car crashes into walls You can fire a gun at them or run a speedboat over their legs, and it will not faze them Their heads can be removed with no deleterious effect They can be in six places at onceIf you know me, you already know that I have a different sort of relationship with the dead You know, the kind where y Find all of my reviews atCadavers are our superheroes They brave fire without flinching, withstand falls from tall buildings and head on car crashes into walls You can fire a gun at them or run a speedboat over their legs, and it will not faze them Their heads can be removed with no deleterious effect They can be in six places at onceIf you know me, you already know that I have a different sort of relationship with the dead You know, the kind where you dress them upand play offensive hilarious games with themObviously once I heard about Stiff it had to go right to the top of my TBR In all honesty, I was expecting something just a smidgeentertaining than my high school biology book You know, the kind of book only a morbid weirdo like myself could truly enjoy To say I was pleasantly surprised is the understatement of the year.Most of...Read for Popsugar s 2018 Reading Challenge 48 A MicrohistoryThis book was so wonderfully written, and I definitely look forward to readingof Mary Roach s books She was concise and easy to understand while also being HILARIOUS which I wasn t expecting I will say though, the book dragged quite a bit around the middle two chapters back to back that didn t interest me at all to the point that I almost considered putting the book down This is completely a testament to my personal prefere Read for Popsugar s 2018 Reading Challenge 48 A MicrohistoryThis book was so wonderfully written, and I definitely look forward to readingof Mary Roach s books She was concise and easy to understand while also being HILARIOUS which I wasn t expecting I will say though, the book dragged quite a bit around the middle two chapters back to back that didn t interest me at all to the point that I almost considered putting the book down This is completely a testament to ...I bought this book when I first taught my class that has a foresnic anthropology component I thought I could pick out a chapter of this book to assign to them, and it would be a nice, informative, lay person account that would be entertaining, yet informational However, due to time constraints, I never got around to reading the book In that time, several people have borrowed and returned this book to me, so my copy is a bit tattered and dog eared, as if I d read it many times I can safely sa I bought this book when I first taught my class that has a foresnic anthropology component I th...

Stiff
  • English
  • 03 November 2017
  • Paperback
  • 320 pages
  • 0393324826
  • Mary Roach
  • Stiff