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The Corpse
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Author : Christine Quigley
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 1996-01-01
The Corpse written by Christine Quigley and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Throughout the centuries, different cultures have established a variety of procedures for handling and disposing of corpses. Often the methods are directly associated with the deceased's position in life, such as a pharaoh's mummification in Egypt or the cremation of a Buddhist. Treatment by the living of the dead over time and across cultures is the focus of study. Burial arrangements and preparations are detailed, including embalming, the funeral service, storage and transport of the body, and forms of burial. Autopsies and the investigative process of causes of deliberate death are fully covered. Preservation techniques such as cryonic suspension and mummification are discussed, as well as a look at the recycling of the corpse through organ donation, donation to medicine, animal scavengers, cannibalism, and, of course, natural decay and decomposition. Mistreatments of a corpse are also covered.
The Corpse
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Author : Christine Quigley
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-09-17
The Corpse written by Christine Quigley and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-17 with Social Science categories.
Throughout the centuries, different cultures have established a variety of procedures for handling and disposing of corpses. Often the methods are directly associated with the deceased's position in life, such as a pharaoh's mummification in Egypt or the cremation of a Buddhist. Treatment by the living of the dead over time and across cultures is the focus of this study. Burial arrangements and preparations are detailed, including embalming, the funeral service, storage and transport of the body, and forms of burial. Autopsies and the investigative process of causes of deliberate death are fully covered. Preservation techniques such as cryonic suspension and mummification are discussed, as well as a look at the "recycling" of the corpse through organ donation, donation to medicine, animal scavengers, cannibalism, and, of course, natural decay and decomposition. Mistreatments of a corpse are also covered.
The Corpse On The Dike
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Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
language : en
Publisher: Soho Press
Release Date : 2003-07-01
The Corpse On The Dike written by Janwillem van de Wetering and has been published by Soho Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-01 with Fiction categories.
A recluse has been shot right between the eyes as he stood looking out of his bedroom window. His neighbor, a schoolteacher who is a pistol shot champion, admits she discovered the body and failed to report it. Is she really guilty of murder?
Technologies Of The Human Corpse
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Author : John Troyer
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2020-04-14
Technologies Of The Human Corpse written by John Troyer and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-14 with Social Science categories.
The relationship of the dead body with technology through history, from nineteenth-century embalming machines to the death-prevention technologies of today. Death and the dead body have never been more alive in the public imagination—not least because of current debates over modern medical technology that is deployed, it seems, expressly to keep human bodies from dying, blurring the boundary between alive and dead. In this book, John Troyer examines the relationship of the dead body with technology, both material and conceptual: the physical machines, political concepts, and sovereign institutions that humans use to classify, organize, repurpose, and transform the human corpse. Doing so, he asks readers to think about death, dying, and dead bodies in radically different ways. Troyer explains, for example, how technologies of the nineteenth century including embalming and photography, created our image of a dead body as quasi-atemporal, existing outside biological limits formerly enforced by decomposition. He describes the “Happy Death Movement” of the 1970s; the politics of HIV/AIDS corpse and the productive potential of the dead body; the provocations of the Body Worlds exhibits and their use of preserved dead bodies; the black market in human body parts; and the transformation of historic technologies of the human corpse into “death prevention technologies.” The consequences of total control over death and the dead body, Troyer argues, are not liberation but the abandonment of Homo sapiens as a concept and a species. In this unique work, Troyer forces us to consider the increasing overlap between politics, dying, and the dead body in both general and specifically personal terms.
The Corpse Queen
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Author : Heather M. Herrman
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2021-09-14
The Corpse Queen written by Heather M. Herrman and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-14 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
“Deliciously macabre and utterly decadent.” —Kerri Maniscalco, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Stalking Jack the Ripper In this dark and twisty feminist historical mystery, a teenage girl starts a new life as a grave robber but quickly becomes entangled in a murderer's plans. Soon after her best friend Kitty mysteriously dies, orphaned seventeen-year-old Molly Green is sent away to live with her "aunt." With no relations that she knows of, Molly assumes she has been sold as a maid for the price of an extra donation in the church orphanage's coffers. Such a thing is not unheard of. There are only so many options for an unmarried girl in 1850s Philadelphia. Only, when Molly arrives, she discovers her aunt is very much real, exceedingly wealthy, and with secrets of her own. Secrets and wealth she intends to share—for a price. Molly's estranged aunt Ava, has built her empire by robbing graves and selling the corpses to medical students who need bodies to practice surgical procedures. And she wants Molly to help her procure the corpses. As Molly learns her aunt's trade in the dead of night and explores the mansion by day, she is both horrified and deeply intrigued by the anatomy lessons held at the old church on her aunt's property. Enigmatic Doctor LaValle's lessons are a heady mixture of knowledge and power and Molly has never wanted anything more than to join his male-only group of students. But the cost of inclusion is steep and with a murderer loose in the city, the pursuit of power and opportunity becomes a deadly dance.
The Corpse Flower
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Author : Anne Mette Hancock
language : en
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Release Date : 2021-10-12
The Corpse Flower written by Anne Mette Hancock and has been published by Crooked Lane Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-12 with Fiction categories.
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo meets Sharp Objects in this Danish psychological thriller for fans of Jo Nesbø and Henning Mankell—now available for the first time in English. “Gripping, endearing, dark, and funny . . . Kaldan and Schafer are my new favorite crime-solving duo. Highly recommended.” —Harlan Coben Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan is in the middle of a nightmare. One of her sources has been caught lying, and she could lose her job over it. Then she receives the first in a series of cryptic and unsettling letters from a woman named Anna Kiel. Wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of a young lawyer three years earlier, Anna hasn’t been seen by anyone since she left the crime scene covered in blood. The police think she’s fled the country until homicide detective Erik Scháfer comes up with a lead after the reporter who originally wrote about the case is found murdered in his apartment. Has Anna Kiel struck again, or is there more than one killer at large? And why does every clue point directly to Heloise Kaldan? Meanwhile, the letters keep coming, and they hint at a connection between Anna and Heloise. As Heloise starts digging deeper, she realizes that to tell Anna’s story she will have to revisit the darkest parts of her own past—confronting someone she swore she’d never see again. The Corpse Flower is the first in the #1 bestselling Danish crime series, the Kaldan and Scháfer mysteries.
Autobiography Of A Corpse
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Author : Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2013-12-03
Autobiography Of A Corpse written by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-03 with Fiction categories.
An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the 2014 PEN Translation Prize Winner of the 2014 Read Russia Prize The stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven mind-bending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovsky’s most dazzling conceits: a provincial journalist who moves to Moscow finds his existence consumed by the autobiography of his room’s previous occupant; the fingers of a celebrated pianist’s right hand run away to spend a night alone on the city streets; a man’s lifelong quest to bite his own elbow inspires both a hugely popular circus act and a new refutation of Kant. Ordinary reality cracks open before our eyes in the pages of Autobiography of a Corpse, and the extraordinary spills out.
The Terror
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Author : Dan Simmons
language : en
Publisher: Little, Brown
Release Date : 2007-03-08
The Terror written by Dan Simmons and has been published by Little, Brown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-08 with Fiction categories.
The "masterfully chilling" novel that inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly). The men on board the HMS Terror — part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage — are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with poisonous rations, a dwindling coal supply, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is even more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror clawing to get in. “The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years.” —Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe
The Theme Of The Mutilation Of The Corpse In The Iliad
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Author : Charles Segal
language : en
Publisher: Brill Archive
Release Date : 1972
The Theme Of The Mutilation Of The Corpse In The Iliad written by Charles Segal and has been published by Brill Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with History categories.
The Corpse Washer
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Author : Sinan Antoon
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-30
The Corpse Washer written by Sinan Antoon and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-30 with Fiction categories.
DIV Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing instead to become a sculptor, to celebrate life rather than tend to death. He enters Baghdad’s Academy of Fine Arts in the late 1980s, in defiance of his father’s wishes and determined to forge his own path. But the circumstances of history dictate otherwise. Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship and the economic sanctions of the 1990s destroy the socioeconomic fabric of society. The 2003 invasion and military occupation unleash sectarian violence. Corpses pile up, and Jawad returns to the inevitable washing and shrouding. Trained as an artist to shape materials to represent life aesthetically, he now must contemplate how death shapes daily life and the bodies of Baghdad’s inhabitants. Through the struggles of a single desperate family, Sinan Antoon’s novel shows us the heart of Iraq’s complex and violent recent history. Descending into the underworld where the borders between life and death are blurred and where there is no refuge from unending nightmares, Antoon limns a world of great sorrows, a world where the winds wail. /div