Introduction
1. A HEAD IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE
Practicing Surgery on the Dead
2. CRIMES OF ANATOMY
Body Snatching and Other Sordid Tales from the Dawn of Human Dissection
3. LIFE AFTER DEATH
On Human Decay and What Can Be Done About It
4. DEAD MAN DRIVING
Human Crash Test Dummies and the Ghastly Necessary Science of Impact Tolerance
5. BEYOND THE BLACK BOX
When the Bodies of the Passengers Must Tell the Story of a Crash
6. THE CADAVER WHO JOINED THE ARMY
The Sticky Ethics of Bullets and Bombs
7. HOLY CADAVER
The Crucifixion Experiments
8. HOW TO KNOW IF YOU’RE DEAD
Beating-Heart Cadavers, Live Burial, and the Scientific Search for the Soul
9. JUST A HEAD
Decapitation, Reanimation, and the Human Head Transplant
10. EAT ME
Medicinal Cannibalism and the Case of the Human Dumplings
11. OUT OF THE FIRE, INTO THE COMPOST BIN
And Other New Ways to End Up
12. REMAINS OF THE AUTHOR
Will She or Won’t She?
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Copyright
