A head is a terrible thing to waste: practicing surgery on the dead

Crimes of anatomy: body-snatching and other sordid tales from the dawn of human dissection

Life after death: on human decay and what can be done about it

Dead man driving: human crash test dummies and the ghastly, necessary science of impact tolerance

Beyond the black box: when the bodies of the passengers must tell the story of a crash

The cadaver who joined the army: the sticky ethics of bullets and bombs

Holy cadaver: the crucifixion experiments

How to know if you're dead: beating-heart cadavers, live burial, and the scientific search for the soul

Just a head: decapitation, reanimation, and the human head transplant

Eat me: medicinal cannibalism and the case of the human dumplings

Out of the fire, into the compost bin: and other new ways to end up

Remains of the author: will she or won't she?