Mary Roach's book "Stiff", illuminates the past and present curious lives of human cadavers. She bigeins with her at a seminar for plastic surgeons practicing on the heads of the those freshly mortified, with the heads lying in raosting pans, the author also mentioned that the heads reminded her of chickens to be raosted. From there she tells of past attempts on surgical instruction including performing surgeries on live patients in front of aprentices and sometimes alowing them to try there hand at the task. Later she mentions encounters with anatomy students, and there level of respect for there assigned cadavers. This was especially interesting to me because I would expect it to be some sort of comedic antics with the cadavers but instead there was complete reverence and respect.
Questions:
1) Would you expect students in King/Drew to treat cadavers with the same respect as the colege students if in a serious anatomy/surgery training? If not why?
2) Do you think cadaver disections would be so taboo if gross anatomy was introduced in High Shcool
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Dear Eric- I like what you have done to your blog so far, but I would like your response to resemble a precis a bit more (perhaps a little longer). What did you notice about Mary's writing style? What is her implicit argument? Why didn't you discuss the beginning (the intro) when she discusses the differnece between a body and a cadaver? Since I am reading this book- I think I will join this group (lol). Ms. G
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