IRB #2 Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers is written by Mary Roach, a New York Times bestseller, a 2003 Barnes and Nobles Discover Great New Writers pick, one of Entertainment Weekly's Best Books of 2003 and other numerous awards. I became interested in this book last year during our nonfiction unit when Mrs. Minges introduced it to us along with a few other books by this author. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers is a nonfiction, humorous book about our bodies postmortem, especially in the science and medical fields. This includes some of the oddest undertakings in France's first guillotines, NASA space shuttles, and being crucified in a Parisian lab to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin.