Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Human Cadavers Nicholette Lizdas Introduction: Hi, my name is Nicholette Lizdas and today I’m going to talk to you about the living dead. Cadavers are defined by Webster’s dictionary as “A dead body; especially: one intended for dissection” (Gove 1993). I’m not talking about your biology class frog dissection either, I’m talking about human organs on the table testing everything from medication to cannibalism. First let’s cover a bit of history. I. Human cadaver use can be dated back to…

non-fiction book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, offers captivating insight into what happens to bodies once they are donated to science. Roach sheds light on the sometimes dark history of cadaver usage and medicine, raising important questions about ethical and moral concerns related to those actions taken for the sake of increasing scientific knowledge. From being used as crash-test dummies to practice for anatomy students to populating body farms in the name of forensic science,…

Mary Roach's 2003 novel, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, explores rich and diverse experiences that post-mortem bodies undergo in the non-life phase. Roach gives a detailed description using open, uncensored episodes of interviews of people who work in close proximity with cadavers ranging from doctors to morticians to body farm personnel. Through personal fascination and humorous experiences, Roach shows how cadavers are the uncelebrated heroes of our past, present, and future time…

It’s Relation to the Modern World Mary Roach, the author of Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, has dived into the history and world of sex science. Roach has extensively researched and participated in the progression of learning about the human body. The way scientists look at sex isn’t as black and white as society may see this taboo topic. Roach shows the complexity and range in topics all relating back to how humans get it on, whether it is for reproduction or just for pleasure.…

majored in psychology which has helped her with all her five published books being, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers published in 2003, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife published in 2005, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex published in 2008, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void published in 2010, and Gulp: Adventures…