Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers—some willingly, some unwittingly—have been ...
It's the summer of 1854, and London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the world. But lacking the infrastructure-garbage removal, clean water, sewers-essential to support its rapidly expanding population, ...
Nome, Alaska, sits on the edge of the Bering Sea two degrees below the Arctic Circle, and there are few extra forbidding places on earth, particularly in winter. Dr. Curtis Welch knew the marks of diphtheria, knew this his patients—many ...