Stiff, by Mary Roach



Stiff by Mary Roach

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Based on the information which Mary Roach provided in her book, I would like to talk about cons first. According to Mary Roach, Herophilus dissected 600 live prisoners for vivisection purpose. The history of dissection is somewhat horrible, in Britain it was legal to dissect the dead bodies of executed criminals, but in order to keep up with the demand of dissection labs, some people delved into the business of stealing corpses from the grave and supply them to the labs where physiological experimentation to add to the knowledge of biological science used ...