How To Dissect Human Cadavers

After reading the book, Stiff, by Mary Roach. I’ve learned that human cadavers are not only used for donating organs to people that are in need. Human cadavers can be used by students who are training to be the next generations of surgeons. Cadavers are important to these students because it gives them a better understanding and perspective of working on real life patients than a computer would. During the early 1800’s, when it was illegal for people including medical students to dissect human cadavers. Students learned how to do surgeries and other medical procedures on poor patients that could not afford private doctors. These patients would end up dying from infections and many other reasons that could have been avoided if students were
During plane wrecks it is hard for us to understand what happened during the final minutes of the flight because there aren’t any survivors. From the study of cadavers experts have learned and studied the different marks and abbreviations that are left on the body of humans during failed flights. These same men and women who study cadavers after plane and car wrecks, also work for big motor companies. These specialist help motor companies when someone is suing them for a failed part on a vehicle during an accident. Even though I do not agree on some things human cadavers are used for. I believe that they are the best way for us to make the world a safer place. Human cadavers can help us understand things that we as living humans don’t. They can tell how someone was murdered or how someone died of natural causes. We can use them to help educate incoming surgeons and doctors on how to carryout different procedures. I do not agree with using cadavers for religious reasons or using them to see if they can feel pain after death. Not only do I feel that this is a waste of time and money, but I feel that the organs of that cadaver could have saved someone’s