The name of the book is Stiff and the author is Mary Roach. It was published by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. in 2004. There is a total of 303 pages in the book. There are also twelve chapters that all have the same thing in common. They all deal with what happens to cadavers that are donated to science. In the following paragraphs I will be telling you about the book and giving you my opinion. The book starts with the author visiting a facial anatomy course. Here they use the cadavers for practicing facelifts. Before the facelifts can begin they have to cut off the heads. The author asks the woman with this job, how she does it without feeling guilty. The woman says “ she thinks of them as wax.” (This is on page…show more content… I like this chapter because it talks about how bodies were used to examine ballistics. The author saw this and said that she would let her body be used for this. She was asked “ Would I let someone shoot my dead face with a nonlethal projectile to help prevent accidental fatalities?” Her response was “ I suppose I would.” (This is on page 153). I will tell you about one more chapter before I rate and tell you my opinion of the whole book. One of my other favorites is chapter 8. I like this because it talks about how doctors use cadavers in hospitals. Sometimes the cadavers are alive everywhere else but their brains. On page (163) these cadavers are called “ beating-heart cadavers.” These cadavers can be practiced on or used for something else. If they are used for something else it will be organ donation. The next chapter I like is chapter twelve. I like this because the author tells us what will happen to her body when she dies. It is up to Ed what her body is used for. She says that Ed can do whatever he wants with the exception of organ donation. She says that “ If I wind up brain-dead with usable parts, someone’s going to use them, squeamishness be damned.” (This is on pages 291 &
