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S'està carregant… Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003)de Mary Roach
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Unread books (60) » 15 més Favourite Books (571) Books Read in 2018 (317) Top Five Books of 2015 (511) Female Author (837) Wish List (1) Books Read in 2012 (129) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. To cook someone recently deceased, stuff the body in a barrel filled to the brim with honey. Wait a hundred years or so and you not only got yourself a delicious slime, but also a slime that can cure anything! The book talks about anything to do with cadavers and it makes it sound so fun to be a dead body (getting exploded into bits, donating organs, crashing cars) that who wouldn't want to die? It felt a bit too rambling, as though she had accumulated all this info then just picked some categories to use for chapters. It didn't feel like there was a clear direction in the book but instead just a stream of tidbits This was the third book I listened to on my roadtrip to/from Indiana. I loved this. It was the first Mary Roach I'd ever read, and I'm kicking myself that I hadn't picked anything up by her sooner. The reader for the audiobook is fantastic and I thought she really brought the right combination of snark, humor, and curiosity to Roach's writing. I'm a bit bummed that the other books have a different reader who from the samples I listened to I don't like as much. This book was completely fascinating and covered a large expanse of history to the present day in how we treat dead human bodies. I enjoyed it and laughed and smiled, was engrossed by the macabre, and was a bit uncomfortable to reach the chapter on crash test cadavers for automobiles while driving 80 mph down the Ohio Turnpike. Fascinating stuff. Not for the faint of heart. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For 2,000 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 mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure--from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery--cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way. In this fascinating, ennobling account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries--from the anatomy labs and human-sourced pharmacies of medieval and nineteenth-century Europe to a human decay research facility in Tennessee, to a plastic surgery practice lab, to a Scandinavian funeral directors' conference on human composting. In her droll, inimitable voice, Roach tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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She writes in a perky journalistic style where she's definitely present on the page. That can irritate some people but I enjoyed it.
Overall a great read. (