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
在我们中国人的哲学中,似乎很忌讳死。当然,死在文人墨客的笔下,也可以描述的很悲壮,比如古诗中有专门的悼亡诗,但总体上,我们提到死,是讳莫如深的,是避之不及的。对尸体,应该说,尤其如此,所以,湘西赶尸人成了众说纷纭的一个传说,嗯,只是传说。 在拿到这本书之前...
評分没有看过本书的童鞋们,别被标题误导。我说的是死亡之后肉体的旅程,而不是灵魂。 这并不是恐怖电影或者Discovery的节目,这仅仅是文字。然而不可否认你会被这镇定而内敛的文字冲击,也许这力道并不亚于直观的视觉冲击。(同时我要说,译者的文笔功力相当到位)。 人死后,肉...
評分我不知道为什么豆瓣评分这么高,而我又出于好奇心买了这本书,有要的同学麻烦留下地址,不包邮赠送。 首先,作为一本翻译著作。实在是不敢恭维这位译者的水平,真是看到译文的行文结构就自己想脑补回英文。 其次,还是作为一本翻译,原文中作者用英文处处想要表达的幽默感,...
評分没有看过本书的童鞋们,别被标题误导。我说的是死亡之后肉体的旅程,而不是灵魂。 这并不是恐怖电影或者Discovery的节目,这仅仅是文字。然而不可否认你会被这镇定而内敛的文字冲击,也许这力道并不亚于直观的视觉冲击。(同时我要说,译者的文笔功力相当到位)。 人死后,肉...
評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,...
啃瞭兩個月終於啃完瞭。已成為瑪麗羅琦腦殘粉。
评分重口味的一本書。
评分太。棒。瞭。好久沒有讓我literally廢寢忘食的好書瞭。大概我口味重?完全沒有不適。科學而不失輕鬆幽默,tone and style抓得不要太好。大贊。
评分Great book. Very informative. Also really really funny.
评分直感衝擊很大
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