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Introduction | p. 9 |
A Head is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Practicing surgery on the dead | p. 19 |
Crimes of Anatomy: Body snatching and other sordid tales from the dawn of human dissection | p. 37 |
Life After Death: On human decay and what can be done about it | p. 61 |
Dead Man Driving: Human crash test dummies and the ghastly, necessary science of impact tolerance | p. 87 |
Beyond the Black Box: When the bodies of the passengers must tell the story of a crash | p. 113 |
The Cadaver Who Joined the Army: The sticky ethics of bullets and bombs | p. 131 |
Holy Cadaver: The crucifixion experiments | p. 157 |
How to Know if You're Dead: Beating-heart cadavers, live burial, and the scientific search for the soul | p. 167 |
Just a Head: Decapitation, reanimation, and the human head transplant | p. 199 |
Eat Me: Medicinal cannibalism and the case of the human dumplings | p. 221 |
Out of the Fire, Into the Compost Bin: And other new ways to end up | p. 251 |
Remains of the Author: Will she or won't she? | p. 281 |
Acknowledgments | p. 293 |
Bibliography | p. 295 |
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