Mary Roach is the author of Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, and Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. Her writing has appeared in Outside, Wired, National Geographic, and the New York Times Magazine, among others. She lives in Oakland, California.
An oddly compelling, often hilarious forensic 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.
發表於2025-03-15
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我在路上撿到的兔子死瞭。我把它吃掉瞭。 K同學對此反應十分激烈。我試圖嚮他闡明,我對屍體的這種處理沒有傷害到任何人。他反問我,你會吃掉你的狗弟(我養的一隻大白狗)嗎?他用狗弟做比是因為知道狗弟是我的心肝寶貝。我說,會啊,它都死瞭。我很快覺得這個答案太過刺激,...
評分初初聽西說起這本書的時候,就浮現齣兩個字“恐怖”。於是,自做主張的把它列入恐怖小說的範圍裏。後來,為瞭幫西訂這本書,而去百度搜的時候,發現它居然被列入內科學裏。好奇的狠,昨天拿到,便花去一個通宵看完。 知道嘛,看完後發齣的感嘆居然是:幸好今天沒有象以往那樣在...
評分#Mary Roach#的《Stiff》的中文版《僵屍的奇異生活》翻譯得正經有餘趣味不足,有些地方準確性尚待商榷,比如“ You cut off heads. You cut off heads. You cut off heads.”被翻譯成“你這個劊子手,你這個劊子手”,但原文所指的隻是醫學院助教人員移除屍體頭部,哪來殺人行...
評分作者旁徵博引,為瞭寫這本書還是做瞭不少準備。 轉移大腦的實驗還是很有價值的。 12世紀的阿拉伯世界有“蜜人”,隻吃蜂蜜,後來變成藥材。然而這是本草綱目中的記載。 人們用木乃伊入藥,用各個部分做成藥粉。書的口味有點重。看著倒是挺長見識,一些細節的地方以前也沒怎麼聽...
評分沒有看過本書的童鞋們,彆被標題誤導。我說的是死亡之後肉體的旅程,而不是靈魂。 這並不是恐怖電影或者Discovery的節目,這僅僅是文字。然而不可否認你會被這鎮定而內斂的文字衝擊,也許這力道並不亞於直觀的視覺衝擊。(同時我要說,譯者的文筆功力相當到位)。 人死後,肉...
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並不是傳說中的滿紙笑點,引述資料不少,cadavers貢獻巨大,最後幾章蛇尾瞭。
評分並不是傳說中的滿紙笑點,引述資料不少,cadavers貢獻巨大,最後幾章蛇尾瞭。
評分並不是傳說中的滿紙笑點,引述資料不少,cadavers貢獻巨大,最後幾章蛇尾瞭。
評分並不是傳說中的滿紙笑點,引述資料不少,cadavers貢獻巨大,最後幾章蛇尾瞭。
評分並不是傳說中的滿紙笑點,引述資料不少,cadavers貢獻巨大,最後幾章蛇尾瞭。
Stiff 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載