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Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting. There are cadavers used as crash testers, those that end up at the Body Farm where decay is studied, among other things , those that are used to help understand airplane crashes…and those that were used to understand what happened to Jesus and others who were crucified. Done wrongly, the book could seem insensitive, ghoulish, or just depressing.

But Roach celebrates these cadavers, reminding the reader just how much has been gained from this research and just how important these bodies have been to not only medicine, but to our society as a whole. Roach is more of a presence in Stiff than she is in Grunt; it feels like more of a first book, and something she might grow away from as she went. And Roach builds her own debate into the book, concluding the book with a chapter that finds her pondering what to do with her own remains, having done all these studies and researches into our possible fates.

Her digressive footnotes and odd asides are still evident, her willingness to ask questions no less charming, and her ability to bring a light tone to even heavy subject matters no less welcome. More than that, she finds depth and thoughtfulness to discuss beyond what you would expect, to the point where you get the impression that she could write a whole second book about bodies and never run out of things to say. That she does all this while being incredibly informative, demonstrating a gift for conveying complex things quickly, and managing to even tell stories, is just testament to her skills as a writer, and the deservedness of her reputation.

Terrific Book By J. Kazi Mary Roach is my favorite non fiction author and this is the first book I read by her. I completely devoured it in just 2 days. I learned a lot from this book and it's one of my favorite reads. From Publishers Weekly "Uproariously funny" doesn't seem a likely description for a book on cadavers.

However, Roach, a Salon and Reader's Digest columnist, has done the nearly impossible and written a book as informative and respectful as it is irreverent and witty. From her opening lines "The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back" , it is clear that she's taking a unique approach to issues surrounding death.

Roach delves into the many productive uses to which cadavers have been put, from medical experimentation to applications in transportation safety research in a chapter archly called "Dead Man Driving" to work by forensic scientists quantifying rates of decay under a wide array of bizarre circumstances. There are also chapters on cannibalism, including an aside on dumplings allegedly filled with human remains from a Chinese crematorium, methods of disposal burial, cremation, composting and "beating-heart" cadavers used in organ transplants.

Roach has a fabulous eye and a wonderful voice as she describes such macabre situations as a plastic surgery seminar with doctors practicing face-lifts on decapitated human heads and her trip to China in search of the cannibalistic dumpling makers. Even Roach's digressions and footnotes are captivating, helping to make the book impossible to put down.

Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc. Dissection in medical anatomy classes is about the least bizarre of the purposes that science has devised.

Mostly dealing with such contemporary uses such as stand-ins for crash-test dummies, Roach also pulls together considerable historical and background information.

Bodies are divided into types, including "beating-heart" cadavers for organ transplants, and individual parts-leg and foot segments, for example, are used to test footwear for the effects of exploding land mines.

Just as the nonemotional, fact-by-fact descriptions may be getting to be a bit too much, Roach swings into macabre humor. In some cases, it is needed to restore perspective or aid in understanding both what the procedures are accomplishing and what it is hoped will be learned. In all cases, the comic relief welcomes readers back to the world of the living. For those who are interested in the fields of medicine or forensics and are aware of some of the procedures, this book makes excellent reading.

From Library Journal Not grisly but inspiring, this work considers the many valuable scientific uses of the body after death. Drawn from the author's popular Salon column. Death is not the end By Jeff Topham This is a book about dead bodies.

As Mary Roach demonstrates in her new book, some bodies go on to do remarkable things, such as helping FAA investigators understand why a plane crashed or helping auto-makers design safety features that save thousands of lives. Others are asked to do nothing more than rot away quietly at a research lab where forensic scientists study decomposition in order to improve crime scene investigation techniques.

Some are put to slightly more questionable uses, such as the severed heads used by plastic surgeons to practice their facelift technique surely not what people had in mind when they donated their bodies to science. Others have had even more bizarre adventures. Cadavers have been nailed to a cross in order to prove the authenticity of the shroud of Turin.

Severed heads have been poked, prodded, and given transfusions in an attempt to revive them long after they and their bodies have parted ways. The anonymous cadavers that are the subjects of STIFF could hardly have asked for a livelier or more sympathetic chronicler than Mary Roach, who has managed to write a book that balances sensitivity and respect with a wonderfully sharp wit.

In fact, STIFF is unexpectedly and quite blessedly hilarious, although the humor never comes at the expense at the dead bodies that populate its pages. Instead, Roach uses humor as a kind of psychic safety valve, a vital and much-appreciated tension release from what is, at times, some very intense subject matter. The real highlights of this book are the sections that delve into some of the more disreputable uses of cadavers.

There is a droll and utterly hilarious history of body snatching and a short overview of medicinal cannibalism human mummy confection, anyone? This chapter culminates in what is surely the most spectacularly strange section of the book, in which Roach relates the story of Dr.