Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Books An earthy and beautiful collection

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Books An earthy and beautiful collectionBeloved, best selling science writer Mary Roach's "acutely entertaining, morbidly fascinating" (Susan Adams, Forbes ) classic, now with a new epilogue. For two thousand 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,