...adventures of the cadaver are touched upon in the exploration of multiple uses of a corpse. We explore society’s use of the dead through burial, cremation, medical science, research, forensics, and organ recovery. Cadavers are our dead. What to do with our dead has been a question throughout history. Centuries ago the dead were left to decay above ground and later on below ground. For those who are religious, the body is to return to the earth. People that aren’t religious the body is of no longer importance. Interest in the human body brought about theft if human corpses for medical research, selling of human corpses, and the donation of the human body for medical science. Using the body to further learn became an accepted practice. The book ,‘Stiff, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers’, goes through multiple ways of what a human cadaver can endure from burial to test dummies, human decay, and compost. I was surprised to learn of the many...
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...body to science, subjecting themselves to potential dissections or car crashes and so much more? What purpose is there to willingly allow one’s body to be disrespected? Those are potential questions one against body donations might pose, but I argue differently. Upon death, the cadaver is no longer the person once inhabiting the body. Experimenting or dissecting the cadaver for the betterment of mankind will not hurt them in any way and is not a sign of disrespect towards the person. If I did not qualify for organ donation, I personally would donate my body to science in order to better mankind, as my cadaver otherwise would have no purpose and as I do not perceive a cadaver as the person it once was. A dead, non-motile body has only a few options: rotting in the ground, lying uselessly in ashes in an urn, other methods of burial or...
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...completely change the way we do things but perhaps just update the way we do them. With a shortage of cadavers and the expense it takes to preserve them this opened the door for technology to come into medical education and advance the way in which dissection has never been seen before. Some are wondering if the new virtual dissection tables will eventually replace cadaver dissection. In this paper we will discuss the benefits and advantages that virtual dissection tables are making in not only the medical field but also the educational fields. The Anatomage Table is a virtual dissection table that is known...
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...Reality vs. Virtual Throughout the process of dissecting an actual cadaver, there are experiences that can’t be described or expressed in any other fashion. The human brain -solely out of the fact that this is a former living animal- experiences things that obviously neither a computer nor any other kind of technology could ever replicate. On the other hand virtual labs can save the school overall money and allow students to learn about animals without harming any actual animals. There are both positives and negatives to both dissection options, and considering one better than the other can be questionable. First, programs of virtual dissection vary greatly. There are dissections such as step-by-step pictures and descriptions of an actual dissection or digitally created dissection programs that give you three-dimensional views of the animal and show clearly ad in great detail, exactly what that part of the body is, and what it does. An upper hand that virtual dissection does have is that the virtual version can actually display how the animal’s body works while the animal is still alive. In an actual dissection you will not be able to see the animal’s body while it is functioning. Another upper hand is that virtual programs can be easily repeated and explained by instructor if needed. Yet, compared to seeing the actual cat and performing on the actual body will give the student a familiarity that you would not get unless you actually dissected an animal. Second, it is obvious...
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...ACL(Anterior Cruciate Ligament). This Ligament is located in both of our knees inside the knee capsule. I am talking about when you tear your ACL. What type of surgery should you get done to your knee if you tear your ACL. When your doctor tells you that you have torn your ACL then your guaranteed 6 months without any physical activity. This has happened to me twice, it is not a fun injury to have happen to you. The options when you get into the pre-op room are three decisions. One option is that you can get two out of the your three hamstrings taken out so that you replace your ACL that way. The second option is...
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...Title: CADAVER The Characters: Torio – the sick husband Marina – the wife of Torio Carding – friend of Torio and Marina Setting: At the cemetery Summary: The Cadaver play is set on the edge of a cemetery in a poor area. It tells the tale of the poverty stricken and the lifestyle of the urban poor. The characters are underprivileged and deprived of life's basic necessities and resources. Torio is very ill and can barely function. Since they have no money to go to the hospital, doctors refuse to pay Torio a household visit even though he is on his death bed. Torio and Carding end up explaining to Marina the business they had devised and how they have been supporting themselves. They inform Marina about how they were forced to resorte to stealing from the tombs and graves of the dead in the cemetery in order to earn money. Torio goes on to explain how it was easier to rob from the deceased then from the living, because the chances of getting caught were smaller. "Rich people are always being buried with something valuable on them. Rings, earrings, necklaces-even gold teeth! Why let these things rot under the ground while above that ground people like us are starving!" Torio claims how he was resentful towards the elite because they were buried with jewels and their expensive belongings. The dead will not need these treasures in the afterlife and here he was, struggling to get by. Torio died because of being wounded from the corpse in the cemetery, and they have the...
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...|Imagine that you are a physician and one of your patients is a four-year-old girl in severe renal failure. She is failing to thrive| |on dialysis and it has become evident that without a kidney transplant in the near future she will not survive. The chance of a | |successful transplant is roughly ninety percent if the kidney comes from a close relative whose tissue type is virtually identical | |to that of the recipient. A successful transplant is far less probable if the tissue match is less close, even if the kidney is | |from a near relative. And implanting a poorly matched kidney from a relative holds out no greater probability of success than the | |implantation of an equally poor match from a cadaver. The probability of getting a good tissue match from a cadaver is lower than | |getting one from within the family. You inform the child's family (her parents and two older siblings); all agree to undergo | |tissue-typing to see if any of the family members are good candidates for donation. The test reveals that the child's father is an | |excellent match. All the other family members are poor matches. You are about to contact the family with the good news when the | |father arrives and asks to speak with you about the test results. You tell him, but much to your surprise, he begins to cry...
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...UNIT 1- CAR BODY DETAILS Cars can come in a large variety of different body styles. Some are still in production, while others are of historical interest only. These styles are largely (though not completely) independent of a car's classification in terms of price, size and intended broad market; the same car model might be available in multiple body styles (or model ranges). For some of the following terms, especially relating to four-wheel drive / SUV models and minivan / MPV models, the distinction between body style and classification is particularly narrow. Please note that while each body style has a historical and technical definition, in common usage such definitions are often blurred. Over time, the common usage of each term evolves. For example, people often call 4-passenger sport coupés a "sports car", while purists will insist that a sports car by definition is limited to two-place vehicles. Body work In automotive engineering, the bodywork of an automobile is the structure which protects: ⦁ The occupants ⦁ Any other payload ⦁ The mechanical components. In vehicles with a separate frame or chassis, the term bodywork is normally applied to only the non-structural panels, including doors and other movable panels, but it may also be used more generally to include the structural components which support the mechanical components. Construction There are three main types of automotive bodywork: ⦁ The first automobiles were designs...
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...degree in Business. I have changed my major a few times starting off going to the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandise for an Associates in Marketing in Irvine, CA. About 2 years ago I got accepted to Southern California University of Health Science to work on a Doctorates in Chiropractic. Let me just say that this was definitely not something that I could enjoy doing the rest of my life and seeing cadavers was a little too much. My goal is to finish getting my degree in Business and finish my swimwear line but I do plan on getting a job working for a corporate business in Southern California. People that know me would probably say that I am a health fanatic. I love doing juice cleanses once a month and at lease have a fresh juice daily. When I have time I am always reading articles and on WebMD seeing what I can do or need to change to better my health. The best hobby that I enjoy every day is yoga. When I was 10 years old I found out I had Scoliosis and have always had lower back pain. All my doctors could only suggest was to see a Chiropractor and do therapy. After doing this for many years the pain would always come back. A friend had introduced me to yoga about 4 years ago and now I rarely get any back pain. Yoga is something that I enjoy doing and has helped me greatly. I also like going hiking, movies, going to the beach, and...
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...doesn’t teach you about how to make decisions, interact with the real people you work with and care for, or live life outside of being medical professional. Paul Kalanithi has shared his insights of how to practice medicine in a realm of humanity. First, Paul is a Christian. He introduces Part I of his book with a Bible verse: Ezekiel 37: 1-3. He sets up the book so that we know where some of his perspective comes from. At the beginning, Paul thinks he want to have a career in literature, but comes to realize that his true calling is in medicine, more specifically neurosurgery. As he is trying to understand life and death, he comes to realize one night while observing a pediatric neurosurgeon break the news to a family, that the best way to do that is by helping others through the times of life and death. He longs to care for people as a whole, not just as a body. He wants to guide families through the process of planning the future for loved ones. He once commented that “had I been more religious in my youth, I might have become a pastor” because “it was the pastoral role that I sought (88).” Paul, being a student of science, is also trying to combat the world of materialism where God is not necessary (81). In a world where science is the sole ruler, then the only knowledge is that of science which does not give any basis for meaning (or God). A world without meaning is a world without love or hate which is obviously not the case (169). Thus, the reason that science cannot provide...
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...Every year, thousands of people in America die due to the lack of available organs. In the article, "Organ Sales Will Save Lives" by Joanne MacKay she attempts to raise awareness that there are thousands of people in the world that are in need of life-saving organs, specifically kidneys. The author goes on to describe the grueling dialysis treatments for patients suffering from End Stage Renal Disease and the lengthy wait and hope for a cadaver kidney donation. Unhappy with these options; patients opt for a third choice, which leads them overseas into the pit of the black market. The reason is the United States government bans the selling of organs. In 1984, the National Organ Transplant Act made it a federal crime to, “knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer any human organ for valuable consideration for use in human transplantation if the transfer affects interstate commerce” (2007). MacKay's argument is that the...
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...Every year, thousands of people in America die due to the lack of available organs. In the article, "Organ Sales Will Save Lives" by Joanne MacKay she attempts to raise awareness that there are thousands of people in the world that are in need of life-saving organs, specifically kidneys. The author goes on to describe the grueling dialysis treatments for patients suffering with End Stage Renal Disease and the lengthy wait and hope for a cadaver kidney donation. Unhappy with these options; patients opt for a third choice, which leads them overseas into the pit of the black market. The reason is the United States government bans the selling of organs. In 1984, the National Organ Transplant Act made it a federal crime to, “knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer any human organ for valuable consideration for use in human transplantation if the transfer affects interstate commerce” (2007). MacKay's argument is...
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...impaired i.e. blind, or crippled. Organ eye and tissue donation for transplantation is one of the most highly regulated areas in healthcare. Multiple regulatory agencies at the federal level such as CMS (Center for Medicare Services), FDA (Federal Drug Association), UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing) have oversight. These areas of donation are also regulated in many, but not all cases by state oversight. This regulation while adding cost and complication helps assure the safety of the public. The next area of donation is done for the purposes of education or research. This area is completely unregulated in most states. The bodies donated to unregulated programs can be used for a variety of purposes. Often they are used as cadavers for training medical students. The remains could also be used as anatomical models for a chiropractor’s office, be processed to make a mold of the bone structure of a foot, or even be plasticized and used as a body in an exhibit. Other uses include research for the possible application in the treatment of disease like diabetes, Parkinson’s or arthritis. Many of these uses are beneficial to society and may be absolutely fine with the person or the family who donated the deceased body. The problem is...
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...Complications: A Surgeon's Note on an Imperfect Science is one of the most important books for doctors and medical students. This book was written by Dr. Atul Gawande, he is a child of two doctors, and he is a surgical resident. This book is a collection of cases and stories that happened to Dr. Atul Gawande during his career. “Complications” is the word that describes difficulty and challenges. Dr. Gawande discussed many medical issues that face junior doctors. He talked about his job and how he became an expert. His main point in this book is to clarify for doctors, medical students the connection between complications that face doctors, and how that leads them to succeed. Dr. Gawande believes that medicine is an art which we have to practice...
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...The Devil In The White City The Devil in the White City is an amazing book it was written by Erik Larson. He had to do a lot of research to know what H.H Holmes did to all the girls that was in his hotel and how he pulled it off. Not long after Jack the Ripper haunted the ill-lit streets of 1888 London, H.H. Holmes (born Herman Webster Mudgett) dispatched somewhere between 27 and 200 people, mostly single young women, in the churning new metropolis of Chicago; many of the murders occurred during (and exploited) the city's finest moment, the World's Fair of 1893. Larson's breathtaking new history is a novelistic yet wholly factual account of the fair and the mass murderer who lurked within it. Bestselling author Larson (Isaac's Storm) strikes...
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