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MacPherson, Duncan.
Bullet Penetration: Modeling the Dynamics and the
Incapacitation Resulting from Wound Trauma
. El Segundo, Calif: Ballistic Publications, 1994.

Marshall, Evan P., and Edwin J. Snow.
Handgun Stopping Power: The
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Phelan, James M. "Louis Anatole La Garde, Colonel, Medical Corps, U.S.

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U.S. Senate.
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CHAPTER 7: HOLY CADAVER

Barbet, Pierre.
A Doctor at Calvary: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ as
Described by a Surgeon
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Nickell, Joe.
Inquest on the Shroud of Turin
—
Latest Scientific Findings
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————."Pierre Barbet Revisited."
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CHAPTER 8: HOW TO KNOW IF YOU'RE DEAD

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Bondeson, Jan.
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Clarke, Augustus P. "Hypothesis Concerning Soul Substance." Letter to the Editor,
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French, R. K.
Robert Whytt, The Soul, and Medicine
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Hippocrates.
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Macdougall, Duncan. "Hypothesis Concerning Soul Substance Together with Experimental Evidence of the Existence of Such Substance."

American Medicine
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————. "Hypothesis Concerning Soul Substance." Letter to the Editor,
American Medicine
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Nutton, Vivian. "The Anatomy of the Soul in Early Renaissance Medicine." In
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Energy
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Rausch, J. B., and K. K. Kneen. "Accepting the Gift of Life: Heart Transplant Recipients' Post-Operative Adaptive Tasks."
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Roach, Mary. "My Quest for Qi."
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Tabler, James B., and Robert L. Frierson. "Sexual Concerns after Heart Transplantation."
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Whytt, Robert.
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CHAPTER 9: JUST A HEAD

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Demikhov.V. P.
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Fallaci, Oriana. "The Dead Body and the Living Brain."
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November 1967.

Guthrie, Charles Claude.
Blood Vessel Surgery and Its Applications
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Hayem, G., and G. Barrier. "Effets de l'anemie totale de l'encephale et de ses diverses parties, étudies à l'aide la décapitation suivie des tranfusions de sang."
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, 1887 Series 3, Volume X. Landmarks II. Microfiche.

Kershaw, Alister.
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————. "Recherches expérimentales sur la tête et le corps d'un supplicié (Campi)."
Revue Scientifique
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Soubiran, André.
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Translated by Malcolm MacCraw. London: Souvenir Press, 1964.

White, Robert J., et al. "Cephalic Exchange Transplantation in the Monkey."
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————, et al. "The Isolation and Transplantation of the Brain: An Historical Perspective Emphasizing the Surgical Solutions to the Design of These Classical Models."
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CHAPTER 10: EAT ME

Bernstein, Adam M., Harry P. Koo, and David A. Bloom. "Beyond the Trendelenburg Position: Friedrich Trendelenburgs Life and Surgical Contributions."
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126 (l):78-82.

Chong, Key Ray.
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Garn, Stanley M., and Walter D. Block. "The Limited Nutritional Value of Cannibalism."
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Harris, Marvin.
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Kevorkian, Jack. "Transfusion of Postmortem Human Blood."
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Le Fèvre, Nicolas.
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Micro-opaque.

Lemery, Nicholas.
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Peters, Hermann.
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Petrov, B. A. "Transfusions of Cadaver Blood."
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Pomet, Pierre.
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Read, Bernard E.
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. From the
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Reuters. "Court Releases Crematorium Cannibals." Oddly Enough section. 6 May 2002.

————. "Diners Loved Human-Flesh Dumplings."
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March 1991

Rivera, Diego.
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Roach, Mary. "Don't Wok the Dog."
California
, January 1990, 18-22.

————. "Why Doesn't Anyone Have Dropsy Anymore?" Salon.com, 2

July 1999

Sharma, Yojana, and Graham Hutchings. "Chinese Trade in Human Foetuses for Consumption Is Uncovered."
Daily Telegraph
(London), 13

April 1995.

Tannahil, Reay.
Flesh and Blood
. Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.: Stein & Day, 1975.

Thompson, C. J. S.
The Mystery and Art of the Apothecary
. Philadelphia: J.B.

Lippincott, 1929.

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Zheng, I.
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Translated by T. P. Sym. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996.

CHAPTER 11: OUT OF THE FIRE, INTO THE COMPOST BIN

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Prothero, Stephen.
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.

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CHAPTER 12: REMAINS OF THE AUTHOR

O'Rorke, Imogen. "Skinless Wonders: An Exhibition of Flayed Corpses Has Been Greeted with Popular Acclaim and Moral Indignation."
The
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United Press International. "Boston Med Schools Fear Skeleton Pinch: Plastic Facsimiles Are Just Passable."
Chicago Tribune
, 15 June 1986. Final Edition.

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