Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Roach investigates what happens to bodies donated to science with the irreverence of someone who has made peace with mortality and wants you to also. The gallows humour is not disrespectful — it is the coping mechanism of the people who do this work. The history of surgical cadaver use is also a history of class: whose bodies were taken, from where, and who decided they had no further claim to dignity.