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
大概是因为低低的窃笑引人注意,因此偶尔有人会问我:“你在看什么书啊?” 短暂的扭捏之后,我只能实话实说。“一本关于尸体的书。”有时候,我还会把书皮展示给对方看,希望能延续谈话。但是,谈话往往就此终结。我会得到一个意味深长的眼神,这种眼神并不算得上友好。 幸...
評分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...
評分 評分作者旁征博引,为了写这本书还是做了不少准备。 转移大脑的实验还是很有价值的。 12世纪的阿拉伯世界有“蜜人”,只吃蜂蜜,后来变成药材。然而这是本草纲目中的记载。 人们用木乃伊入药,用各个部分做成药粉。书的口味有点重。看着倒是挺长见识,一些细节的地方以前也没怎么听...
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boring
评分嘆為觀止。=D
评分輕鬆有趣的小科普書,但貌似不太嚴謹(比如涉及到中醫的部分)
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