Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

"This quirky and interesting reading provides insight and insight about life, death and medicine ... you can end this book by enjoying the real miracle of the human body."

"A fun laugh fun book, one of those wonderful books with entertainment as a cover for enlightenment."

"As in this book, Roach succeeded in expressing respect and appreciation for his subject."

"蟑螂 is authoritative, unlimited curiosity and funny thing, her research has been awarded with extreme caution."

"Mary Roach is a compromised species: a scientific writer with a sense of humor, she can do something terribly fun without looting his dignity."

"Roach writes in a despicable style and displays her tangled information about a strange event in a morbid history, although death may laugh at the end, but at the same time Roach is delighted with joy I will find it. "

"Discussion on hard books: curious life of human corpses" C - SPAN April 22, 2003 It was taken out on April 18, 2015. Mary Roach talks about her book "Stiff: a strange life of a human corpse" published by W. W. Norton She discussed many ways in which the deceased brought about his life. This book explores the "life" of corpses from ancient Egyptians to medieval anatomical laboratories, to the European demolition laboratory of the 19th century, and to the present Swedish human composting movement. According to Mr. Roach, the body has engaged in scientific research for more than 2000 years. They tested the first guillotine in France, visited NASA's Space Shuttle and helped create new surgical procedures such as heart transplant and cosmetic surgery. After her speech, the author answered the question of the audience.

The first part of Stiff: Human Corps' curious life announced an introduction. Mary Roach described in detail the initial contact with the body. Unfortunately, the body is her mother. Mary explained that because the human body was thought to be a marginalized shell, not as it was before, I did not want to make this book uncomfortable. Like death, death is sad and profound. It is nothing fun to be a person who will lose or lose a person you love. Cockroach 11). At the beginning of the first chapter, Mary Roach challenged her first topic "Surgery of the Dead" (Roach 19). In the first chapter, Mary oversees orthopedic surgeons to practice their art on the face of the dead. I am waiting for a facial lift and nose work that lies on the real human head, the baking sheet.