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Life After Death: What Happens to Your Body After You Die? 1st ed. 2022 [Pehme köide]

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  • Sari: Springer Praxis Books
  • Ilmumisaeg: 29-Mar-2022
  • Kirjastus: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
  • ISBN-10: 3030830357
  • ISBN-13: 9783030830359
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 271 pages, kõrgus x laius: 235x155 mm, kaal: 438 g, 169 Illustrations, color; 9 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 271 p. 178 illus., 169 illus. in color., 1 Paperback / softback
  • Sari: Springer Praxis Books
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  • ISBN-10: 3030830357
  • ISBN-13: 9783030830359
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Death is not an end – it’s a new beginning. After death, all of the molecules that came together to form the living “you” become nutrients for millions of creatures, large and small. Your body becomes the hub of a complex ecosystem of microbes, insects, worms, plants and more. Cheer up! This book shows how you are going to live forever – as components of so many other wonderful creatures. It describes the science behind the remarkable recycling of your body. We begin with lessons about how your body functions, is a collection of valuable nutrients and is a home to millions of microbes. The book goes on to describe the various stages the body passes through as it decomposes following death. The microbes and insects that make use of your tissues are then introduced. Finally, you will learn about the enduring effects that your body will have on the wider biosphere. We are rich in valuable resources that will end up feeding an immense number and variety of other creatures. Inevitably, your body supports the continuation of life on our beautiful planet – this book describes how all this happens.

Preface vi
1 It Comes to Us All 1(12)
1.1 Want to know more?
11(2)
2 A Rich Bag of Goodies - The Human Body as a Source of Nutrients 13(29)
2.1 What Types of Tissues Are Present in My Body?
14(6)
2.1.1 Epithelial Tissue - Keeping It All Together
15(3)
2.1.2 Connective Tissue - Our Support System
18(1)
2.1.3 Muscle Tissue - Standing and Moving
18(2)
2.1.4 Nervous Tissue - "I've Got a Feeling" (Thanks to The Beatles)
20(1)
2.2 But What Are All These Tissues Made Up Of?
20(17)
2.2.1 Small Is Beautiful, But Big Is Also Very Important
24(1)
2.2.2 Structures of the Main Macromolecules in Humans
25(4)
2.2.3 Where Are Macromolecules Found in Human Tissues?
29(8)
2.3 How Available to Microbes and Insects Are the Nutrients Present in the Human Body?
37(1)
2.4 And then, Of Course, We Shouldn't Forget That Brown, Smelly Stuff
38(2)
2.5 Want to Know More?
40(2)
3 Our Life-Long Microbial Companions - Who Are They and What Do They Get Up to While We're Alive? 42(49)
3.1 What Are Microbes?
43(42)
3.1.1 What Is the Definition of a Microbe?
43(1)
3.1.2 So, How Are These Six Types of Microbes Different From Each Other?
43(1)
3.1.3 They're So Small, So They Must Be Very Simple Creatures?
44(1)
3.1.4 How Do We Identify the Various Types of Microbes?
45(6)
3.1.5 Meet My Best Friends - My Microbiota
51(1)
3.1.6 How Many Microbes Live on Me?
51(2)
3.1.7 Do All Parts of My Body Have the Same Microbes?
53(3)
3.1.8 Which Microbes Live in My Gut?
56(20)
3.1.9 Which Microbes Live on My Skin?
76(6)
3.1.10 Which Microbes Live in My Respiratory System?
82(2)
3.1.11 What About the Microbes That Live at Other Body Sites?
84(1)
3.2 How Do We Manage to Co-Exist With Our Microbiota?
85(3)
3.3 Want to Know More?
88(3)
4 Not a Pretty Picture - Our Appearance After Death 91(26)
4.1 How Can We Find Out What Happens to a Body After Death?
92(2)
4.2 The Decomposition of a Human Corpse Follows a Predictable Pattern
94(4)
4.3 What Are the Various Stages Involved in Decomposition?
98(9)
4.3.1 The Fresh Stage - 0 to 3 Days After Death
98(2)
4.3.2 The Bloat Stage - 2 to 6 Days After Death
100(1)
4.3.3 The Stage of Active Decay - 5 to 11 Days After Death
101(1)
4.3.4 Advanced Decay (or Post-Decay) Stage - 10 to 25 Days After Death
102(1)
4.3.5 Skeletal Decay Stage. > 25 Days After Death
102(5)
4.4 The Smell of Death - "I think, I think, I smell a stink, it comes from y...o...u"
107(1)
4.5 Factors That Affect the Rate of Decomposition
108(3)
4.6 Where's My Mummy?
111(4)
4.7 Want to Know More?
115(2)
5 The Great Betrayal - Our Own Cells and Our Symbionts Turn Against Us 117(50)
5.1 It All Starts With Autolysis - the Damage Is Self-Inflicted
118(4)
5.2 And Now the Microbes Can Take Over
122(2)
5.3 It All Comes Down to Ecology
124(2)
5.4 Ch...Ch....Ch....Changes (With Thanks to David Bowie)
126(2)
5.5 Mass Migration - A World (or, At Least, a Corpse) Without Borders
128(2)
5.6 Knock, Knock - Who's There?
130(33)
5.6.1 A General Overview - The Broad-Brush Approach
132(4)
5.6.2 What Happens to Specific Organs?
136(22)
5.6.3 Come on in, It's Now Open House - The Invasion of the Body-Eaters
158(5)
5.7 Want to Know More?
163(4)
6 From the Micro to the Macro - Now the Big Guys Move In 167(41)
6.1 What Is an Insect?
169(2)
6.2 What Goes on Above Ground - Who's First and Who's Last?
171(24)
6.2.1 The Fresh Stage
173(5)
6.2.2 The Bloat Stage
178(7)
6.2.3 The Active Decay Stage
185(3)
6.2.4 The Advanced Decay Stage
188(3)
6.2.5 The Skeletonisation Stage
191(3)
6.2.6 Wave Upon Wave of Insects - "Help, I'm Not Waving But Drowning"
194(1)
6.3 And Now for What's Going on Down Below
195(10)
6.3.1 Early Arrivals
196(4)
6.3.2 Now for the Late-Comers
200(1)
6.3.3 And Last, But Not Least
200(5)
6.4 Want to Know More?
205(3)
7 And What About the Rest of the Big, Wide World? Corpse Decomposition and the Environment 208(32)
7.1 What Are the Ways in Which a Corpse Affects the Environment?
209(26)
7.1.1 Let's Start With the Sensual
211(1)
7.1.2 Now for the Chemical
212(6)
7.1.3 The Biological Impact
218(17)
7.2 Final Thoughts
235(2)
7.3 Want to Know More?
237(3)
Appendix I. Glossary 240(6)
Appendix II. Descriptions of Microbes Mentioned in the Book 246(12)
Appendix III. Images of Corpses and Other Items That Some Readers May Consider to Be Unpleasant or Disturbing 258(8)
Index 266
Michael Wilson is Emeritus Professor of Microbiology at University College London where he was based for more than 30 years. He has published 337 scientific papers, holds 13 patents and in 1991 was awarded the Inventor of the Year prize by Toshiba for inventing a device that produces pure drinking water from contaminated water sources. In 2011 he was appointed Chevalier dans lOrdre des Palmes Académiques by the President of France for his services to French culture. He has produced a number of exhibitions for the general public about his research and was Senior Scientific Advisor to the Eden Project for their Invisible you; the human microbiome exhibition which opened in 2015.  He has published 14 books, mainly in the fields of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. His most recent books are: Into the labyrinth; in search of Daidalos (2020) and Close encounters of the microbial kind; everything you need to know about common infections (2021).