In what critics have called and I agree with‚ “fascinating and oddly fun‚” Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers explores a world left normally untouched by humor and brings it into a new intriguing light. This work of non-fiction is nothing like I’ve ever read before. I enjoyed reading every page of this book and I learned facts that I hadn’t know prior to. The writer’s style is totally cool and funny. If the approach to reading this book would be like reading a boring textbook‚ that assumption
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By reading Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers‚ by Mary Roach‚ one can learn the many different uses for cadavers‚ shells of what used to be people. Mainly Roach discusses the multiple scientific uses for them and also how they have influenced advancement in different fields of study. The novel also discusses the decay of these bodies. It does not take long for these bodies to decay and many people attempt to delay this process with techniques such as embalming and burying them in coffins
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We live in a death-defying‚ death-denying society where the inevitable outcome is frequently prolonged through heroic measures and medicine. However‚ death is a very natural part of the circle of life. Through different genres of literature‚ death is often romanticized‚ challenging society’s view of death. Through aspects of religion‚ love‚ and grief‚ death symbolizes the revival of life. In the non-fiction work‚ Stiff: Lives of Human Cadavers‚ Mary Roach explores death and the human body and comments
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body after death‚ the most common things that come to mind include providing organs to ill patients in need of transplants or becoming a specimen for human dissection for medical school students. Little do they know there are endless possibilities where a body can go and what can be done to it in the name science. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers‚ by Mary Roach‚ explores a number of these experiments‚ in an informative‚ humorous‚ yet respectful way. This work opens with a vivid comparison
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Stiff Final Essay Bodies‚ body parts‚ decomposition‚ face lifts and leotards. Those are thoughts that run through the people head after reading this book‚ it has them thinking about what the just read and how its comprehended. The surprise of learning that cadavers can be used in many different areas and research is mind blowing to know people can still make a difference even after life. There many areas that surprised me to no end‚ but trying to attach a head onto a different body just takes
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I enjoyed reading The Curious Life of Human Cadavers much more than I initially thought I would. I am a naturally squeamish person‚ and while I still am‚ I believe the topic of cadavers and death was handled extremely well throughout most of the book. To memory there are only a few moments in the book when I felt grossed out‚ in particular when Mary Roach visited the school that was undergoing research on how bodies decay‚ I felt that including the details of the bacteria that were eating the bodies
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Leazenbee AP Language 7 August 2014 Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Students tend to moan and groan about summer assignments‚ and I was doing just that when I discovered that I had to read a nonfiction book this summer. Originally‚ I pictured the books on the list as tedious and boring textbooks. To my surprise‚ the book descriptions intrigued me‚ especially Mary Roach’s Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers‚ a book about the various scenarios for human bodies after people pass away. I
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Kosek Human Cadavers & Organ/Body Donation When you think of a human cadaver what images pop into your head? I’m sure a common picture is of an old skeleton in a closet of a science or biology professor’s classroom. But human cadavers are used for so much more than that‚ and they aren’t really given the credit they deserve. About 20‚000 U.S. cadavers are donated to science every year‚ according to the Orange County Register. What actually is a cadaver? Webster’s dictionary defines a cadaver as “a
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the book‚ Stiff‚ by Mary Roach. I’ve learned that human cadavers are not only used for donating organs to people that are in need. Human cadavers can be used by students who are training to be the next generations of surgeons. Cadavers are important to these students because it gives them a better understanding and perspective of working on real life patients than a computer would. During the early 1800’s‚ when it was illegal for people including medical students to dissect human cadavers. Students
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Some of the same religions‚ or others who have entirely different beliefs‚ uphold a positive interpretation of cadaver usage or autopsies. Even though some Islamic beliefs portray autopsies and cadaver dissection as detrimental to the connection between God and the individual‚ as well as cruel to the thin line between the dead and the living‚ some interpretations single out why these processes are so necessary. This includes the Islamic “interpretation of the Sharia’s ideas about not performing
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