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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
Definitive Study
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Phelan, James M. "Louis Anatole La Garde, Colonel, Medical Corps, U.S.

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the Secretary of War for the Fiscal Year 1893
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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
.

Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1983.

Zugibe, Frederick T. "The Man of the Shroud Was Washed."
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Quad. No.1, June 1989.

————."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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Brunzel, B., A. Schmidl-Mohl, and G.Wollenek. "Does Changing the Heart Mean Changing Personality? A Retrospective Inquiry on 47 Heart Transplant Patients."
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Clarke, Augustus P. "Hypothesis Concerning Soul Substance." Letter to the Editor,
American Medicine
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Edison, Thomas A.
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Evans, Wainwright. "Scientists Research Machine to Contact the Dead."

Fate
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French, R. K.
Robert Whytt, The Soul, and Medicine
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Hippocrates.
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Kraft, I. A. "Psychiatric Complications of Cardiac Transplantation."

Seminars in Psychiatry
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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
II (7): 395-97 (July 1907).

Nutton, Vivian. "The Anatomy of the Soul in Early Renaissance Medicine." In
The Human Embryo: Aristotle and the Arabic and European
Traditions
. Exeter, Devon: University of Exeter Press, Pearsall, Paul.
The Heart's Code: Tapping the Wisdom and Power of Our Heart
Energy
. New York: Broadway Books,

Rausch, J. B., and K. K. Kneen. "Accepting the Gift of Life: Heart Transplant Recipients' Post-Operative Adaptive Tasks."
Social Work in
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Roach, Mary. "My Quest for Qi."
Health
. March 1997, 100-104.

Tabler, James B., and Robert L. Frierson. "Sexual Concerns after Heart Transplantation."
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(July/August 1990).

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
. Reprint, with a biographical note on Dr. Guthrie by Samuel P. Harbison and Bernard Fisher. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1959.

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."
Archives de physiologie normale et pathologique
, 1887 Series 3, Volume X. Landmarks II. Microfiche.

Kershaw, Alister.
A History of the Guillotine
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Laborde, J.-V. "L'excitabilité cérébrale après décapitation: nouvelle expériences sur deux suppliciés: Gagny et Heurtevent."
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————. "L'excitabilité cérébrale après décapitation: nouvelle recherches physiologiques sur un supplicié (Gamahut)."
Revue Scientifique
, July 1885, 107-12.

————. "Recherches expérimentales sur la tête et le corps d'un supplicié (Campi)."
Revue Scientifique
, 21 June 1884, 777-86.

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."
Surgery
126 (l):78-82.

Chong, Key Ray.
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Garn, Stanley M., and Walter D. Block. "The Limited Nutritional Value of Cannibalism."
American Anthropologist
72:106.

Harris, Marvin.
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Kevorkian, Jack. "Transfusion of Postmortem Human Blood."
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Le Fèvre, Nicolas.
A Compleat Body of Chymistry
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Micro-opaque.

Lemery, Nicholas.
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. 4th edition, translated from the 11th edition in the French. London: A. Bell, 1720.

Peters, Hermann.
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Petrov, B. A. "Transfusions of Cadaver Blood."
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(October 1959).

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
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————. "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.

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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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CHAPTER 12: REMAINS OF THE AUTHOR

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Chicago Tribune
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