02377nam a2200337u  450000100100000000300070001000500170001700700030003400800410003701000150007802000340009302000210012704000250014804200080017304900090018105000210019008200120021110000240022324500580024725000120030526000430031730000290036050400560038950510140044552003990145965000240185865000330188294200140191599900150192995200950194460500113 OCoLC 20250807130743.0ta090722s2005    nyua     b    000 0 eng    a2005014450  a0393059626 (hardcover)c12.95  a0739467298 (pbk)  aDLCcDLCdBAKERdAJM  apcc  aCTMA00aBL535b.R63 200500a1292221 aRoach, Mary.92211910aSpook :bscience tackles the afterlife /cMary Roach.  a1st ed.  aNew York :bW.W. Norton & Co.,cc2005.  a311 p. :bill. ;c22 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [299]-311).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.  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. 0aFuture life.920319 0aReligion and science.922120  2ddccBOOK  c5838d5838  4070aABELJbabeljcNFd2016-10-26l0o129 ROACp6956r2016-10-26v12.95w2016-10-26yBOOK