Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach (W. W. Norton, 2003); audiobook read by Shelly Frasier (Tantor, 2003)
Roach manages in a roundabout, discursive way to answer just about every question ever asked about human cadavers and how they’ve been treated throughout history. She does this respectfully and intelligently yet also with a wry humour (centred on her research journey).