STIFF: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Who knew there were
so many things a dead body could do?!
Stiff:
The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers is a fascinating, and quite hilarious, book
about many of the possibilities in which a human body can be used.
Like being
able to tell how accurate car safety crash tests are.
Or being used by doctors to practice plastic surgery.
Or how (or if) a person
would be able to survive a plane crash.
And my personal favorite, for crime scene
investigation purposes (body farms y’all!).
You didn’t have to ace your high
school anatomy class (or even have taken one) to understand the amazing things
our bodies can do, even if we’re no longer using them ourselves.
And the way
Mary Roach writes is so engrossing, I completely forgot I was reading
non-fiction, and learning about something I would not have otherwise given a
second thought to.
I give this one a B+.
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