(September 18, 2013 at 12:19 pm)apophenia Wrote: Mary Roach's book Spook goes into the subject (and she's funny as hell to read, so, recommended).A hearty second on this- anything by Roach is worth reading, but this one was stellar. Stiff (a history of corpses and their role in science, medicine, and weirdness) was also a favorite of mine.
I fail to see anything in this story that would pass muster to show up in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.