Summary
Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Full description
- Second skin : what to wear to war
- Boom box : automotive safety for people who drive on bomb
- Fighting by ear : the conundrum of military noise
- Below the belt : the cruelest shot of all
- It could get weird: a salute to genital transplants
- Carnage under fire : how do combat medics cope?
- Sweating bullets : the war on heat
- Leaky SEALs : diarrhea as a threat to national security
- The maggot paradox : flies on the battlefield, for better and worse
- What doesn't kill you will make you reek : a brief history of stink bombs
- Old chum : how to make and test shark repellent
- That sinking feeling : when things go wrong under the sea
- Up and under : a submarine tries to sleep
- Feedback from the fallen : how the dead help the living stay that way.