02270nam a2200325u 4500 60500113 OCoLC 20250807130743.0 ta 090722s2005 nyua b 000 0 eng 2005014450 0393059626 (hardcover) 12.95 0739467298 (pbk) DLC DLC BAKER AJM pcc CTMA BL535 .R63 2005 129 22 Roach, Mary. 22119 Spook : science tackles the afterlife / Mary Roach. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2005. 311 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-311). You 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. The 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. Future life. 20319 Religion and science. 22120 ddc BOOK 5838 5838 0 0 ABELJ abelj NF 2016-10-26 0 129 ROAC 6956 2016-10-26 12.95 2016-10-26 BOOK