Mary Roach is the author of the New York Times bestsellers STIFF: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers; GULP: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, PACKING FOR MARS: The Curious Science of Life in the Void; and BONK: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex.
Her most recent book, GRUNT: The Curious Science of Humans at War, is out in June 2016.
Mary has written for National Geographic, Wired, Discover, New Scientist, the Journal of Clinical Anatomy, and Outside, among others. She serves as a member of the Mars Institute's Advisory Board and the Usage Panel of American Heritage Dictionary. Her 2009 TED talk made the organization's 2011 Twenty Most-Watched To Date list. She was the guest editor of the 2011 Best American Science and Nature Writing, a finalist for the 2014 Royal Society Winton Prize, and a winner of the American Engineering Societies' Engineering Journalism Award, in a category for which,
An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem.
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, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way.
In this fascinating, ennobling account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries-from the anatomy labs and human-sourced pharmacies of medieval and nineteenth-century Europe to a human decay research facility in Tennessee, to a plastic surgery practice lab, to a Scandinavian funeral directors' conference on human composting. In her droll, inimitable voice, Roach tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them.
"Uproariously funny ...informative and respectful...irreverent and witty...impossible to put down." ~ Publishers Weekly
"Not grisly but inspiring, this work considers the many valuable scientific uses of the body after death." ~ Library Journal
"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year." ~ Entertainment Weekly
New York Times National Best-Seller
这是一本很趣致的小书,收到之后没有立刻读,夏休回家的时候带着上了飞机,当在近万米的高空上正好读到通过法航尸检,乘客们的尸体如何倾诉了连黑匣子都不知道的秘密时,难免不寒而栗,想着我所在的第12排靠窗的位置,当机舱被大气压这段,而我和身边的乘客(啊对不起大家)会...
评分初初听西说起这本书的时候,就浮现出两个字“恐怖”。于是,自做主张的把它列入恐怖小说的范围里。后来,为了帮西订这本书,而去百度搜的时候,发现它居然被列入内科学里。好奇的狠,昨天拿到,便花去一个通宵看完。 知道嘛,看完后发出的感叹居然是:幸好今天没有象以往那样在...
评分By 亂 死亡,在許多年輕人看來,只是疾病、衰老,以及各種個體不幸的終結。在哲學家眼裏,它可能是心靈的不息漫遊的拯救、不朽與永生。對於詩人來說,它意味著愛情的忠貞與背叛,世事的有常與無常。而在戰爭狂人的詞典裏,它僅僅代表著一串串冷冰冰的數字。它是武俠小說、抗戰...
评分我在路上捡到的兔子死了。我把它吃掉了。 K同学对此反应十分激烈。我试图向他阐明,我对尸体的这种处理没有伤害到任何人。他反问我,你会吃掉你的狗弟(我养的一只大白狗)吗?他用狗弟做比是因为知道狗弟是我的心肝宝贝。我说,会啊,它都死了。我很快觉得这个答案太过刺激,...
评分Stiff - The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (人类尸体的有趣故事) 2003年的一本有关人类尸体的畅销书,其时颇受欢迎。作者Mary Roach,专栏作家。在本书中,作者介绍了对人类尸体使用、安置的历史,并探讨了相关的伦理道德问题(如器官捐赠问题)。本书主要是满足好奇心...
太。棒。了。好久没有让我literally废寝忘食的好书了。大概我口味重?完全没有不适。科学而不失轻松幽默,tone and style抓得不要太好。大赞。
评分太。棒。了。好久没有让我literally废寝忘食的好书了。大概我口味重?完全没有不适。科学而不失轻松幽默,tone and style抓得不要太好。大赞。
评分Sad to see she actually tries so hard.
评分这女的很会调侃,真是实现了谈笑生死间哈哈哈。中国在她笔下又是吃人肉饺子又是用耳屎粪便治病,好愚昧啊。连我都觉得有点不公啊。
评分非常想读原版,望指点哪里可以找到,电子书实体书都行
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