by Mary Roach
I was way off on this one, thinking it was going to be about specific cadavers and their travels (or travails). Like Speedy Atkins, the mummified man who used to grace a funeral home in Paducah. Don't make that mistake--this is a book about the science of dead bodies. And there's a lot of good science here.
You'd expect that dissection for medical research would be a big topic, and it is. But also covered are historical use of cadaver parts in "medicine"; the definition of death; organ transplants; crash test dummies and traumatic injury research; rates of decay; and alternative methods of "cremation." Don't take this on a full stomach.
No comments:
Post a Comment