Winter 2008
Everybody reads
When Mary Roach was researching her book on human cadavers, she attended a seminar where plastic surgeons practiced techniques on severed human heads. She also visited a body farm in Tennessee to see remains in various states of decay. And she stood at an operating table to witness an organ harvest from a brain-dead patient whose heart was still beating.
While doing all these things, Roach simply followed her curiosity as it led her into some extraordinary places.
Jay Barton, a pre-med student, is one of 3,400 freshmen invited to participate in … » More …