T. - reviewed on 9/24/2009 + 117 more book reviews

Mary Roach has a talent for taking mundane scientific information and presenting it in a way that is not only informative, but entertaining. In this book, she explores the life of a person's body after death, focusing on people who have donated their entire bodies to science. She treats the subject with dignity, even though she does this in a humorous way. She explores surgical training, forensics, and disposal, among other things.

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