science tackles the afterlife Roach, Mary. creator text bibliography nyu New York W.W. Norton & Co. c2005 2005 1st ed. monographic eng

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311 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. 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. 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. Mary Roach. Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-311). Future life Religion and science BL535 .R63 2005 129 0393059626 (hardcover) 0739467298 (pbk) 2005014450 DLC 090722 20250807130743.0 60500113