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100 1 _aRoach, Mary
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_0(DLC)n 2002162586
245 1 0 _aSpook :
_bscience tackles the afterlife /
_cMary Roach.
250 _aFirst edition
264 1 _aNew York :
_bW.W. Norton,
_c2005.
300 _a311 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c22 cm.
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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380 _aBook
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385 _aGeneral
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [299]-311).
505 0 _aYou again : a visit to the reincarnation nation -- The little man inside the sperm, or possibly the big toe : hunting the soul with microscopes and scalpels -- How to weigh a soul : what happens when a man (or a mouse, or a leech) dies on a scale -- The Vienna sausage affair : and other dubious highlights of the ongoing effort to see the soul -- Hard to swallow : the giddy, revolting heyday of ectoplasm -- The large claims of the medium : reaching out to the dead in a University of Arizona lab -- Soul in a dunce cap : the author enrolls in medium school -- Can you hear me now? : telecommunicating with the dead -- Inside the haunt box : can electromagnetic fields make you hallucinate? -- Listening to Casper : a psychoacoustics expert sets up camp in England's haunted spots -- Chaffin v. the dead guy in the overcoat : in which the law finds for a ghost, and the author calls in an expert witness -- Six feet over : a computer stands by on an operating room ceiling, awaiting near-death experiencers.
520 _aThe author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers explores how science has attempted to study our post-mortem fate. Roach traces early psychical research to current US investigations of near-death experiences and case studies by the International Centre for Survival and Reincarnation Researches. The title belies her desire to get scientific validation for free-floating consciousness. Referenced but not indexed.
650 0 _aFuture life.
_0(DLC)sh 85052611
650 0 _aReligion and science.
_0(DLC)sh 85112579
852 _9p$24.95
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
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