Cover to Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers


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Article from the Honolulu Weekly, September 17, 2008

 

Stiff:
The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

The Common Book Program
at Windward Community College

Events for Spring, 2009

January 27th, 6:00 to 7:30pm, Akoakoa 105
Native Hawaiian Mourning, Burials, and Reburials
, a panel presentation with June Noelani Cleghorn, archaeologist, Emalia Keohokalole, cultural burial specialist, Lani Ma‘a, attorney, Dennis Kauahi, social worker with the Queen Lili‘uokalani Children's Center.

April 3, Friday, 1:30 to 2:30pm, Akoakoa 107/109
The Career of a Medical Examiner, by Roland Yap, Forensic Scientist, Department of the Medical Examiner

April 8, Wednesday, 4:30 to 5:30pm, Akoakoa 105
Virtual Dissection: is it Really Gross Enough for an Anatomy Class?, by Ross Langston, Anatomy and Physiology instructor at Windward Community College

April 13, Monday, 1:30 to 2:30pm, Akoakoa 107/109
Hospice 101, by Caroline Odo, Bristol Hospice

April 20, Monday, 1:00 to 2:00, Akoakoa 105
Hinduism and the Cadaver, by Sarah Hadmack, Religion Instructor at Windward Community College.

April 28, Tuesday, 4:30 to 5:30pm, Akoakoa 105
STIFF: An Insiders Perspective, Thoughts From a Death Care Expert by Steven Labrash, director of the Anatomy Lab at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (and Lost extra)

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