The doctors, while clearly nervous, both because they work with human remains and because they are. Objectification affords needed emotional distance. Heads and hands are the most familiar and therefore psychologically difficult for doctors to work with. Roach explains that objectification is the coping mechanism that allows surgeons to dissect something which so closely resembles a living human being.
Theresa explains that she prefers to think of the heads as if they were made of wax.
Realizing that severed heads can prove daunting even for trained professionals, the author asks one of the attendants, Theresa, how she copes. Author Mary Roach attends a facial anatomy and face lift refresher course, watching as surgeons practice on decapitated heads. Or look at Mary Roach, a popular science writer responsible for several best selling popular science books: Stiff (2003), Spook (2005), Bonk(2008). She was the guest editor of The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011 and a winner of the American Association of Engineering Societies' Engineering Journalism Award, in a category for which she was the sole entrant.Chapter 1, A Head is a Terrible Thing to Waste Summary and AnalysisĬhapter 1 addresses using cadavers to teach surgical techniques. Her 2009 TED talk made the organization's 2011 Twenty Most-Watched To Date List. She serves as a member of the Mars Institute's Advisory Board and the Usage Panel of American Heritage Dictionary. In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die. Surreal, fascinating, at times absurd and always hilarious, Mary Roach may not reveal the street address of our final destination, but in Spook she makes it.
In her other books, such as Bonk (2008) and Stiff (2003), Roach takes a scientific approach to the subjects of sex and the life of cadavers, respectively. Mary has written for National Geographic, Wired, New Scientist, The New York Times Book Review, The Journal of Clinical Anatomy, and Outside, among others. Spook (2005) by Mary Roach is a detailed investigation into cultural attitudes toward the idea of the afterlife. Stiff has been translated into 26 languages and Spook was a New York Times Notable Book. Packing For Mars is a New York Times Editor's Choice and a "One City, One Book" selection for San Francisco. Mary Roach is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, Packing For Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, and her latest, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War.
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