Analysis Of Stiff: The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers

While reading the book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach it opened my eyes and showed me that human cadavers are used for so many things in this world. By me reading this book it enlightened me on the many different ways cadavers can be used. In Each chapter I learned something new that I did not know before hand or expect. Do you ever wonder how surgeons can decapitate heads and just be on their marry way? That was a huge question I had and in chapter one Roach gets right down to the bottom of it. While she attended a facial anatomy and face lift refresher course, where she watched surgeons decapitate heads. While she was there she asked this woman named Theresa how she coped. I found it interesting that the only way she could cope with the idea was to think that they were wax heads. I learned that objectification is the coping mechanism that

I never knew the answer to this question, until I discovered that human cadavers are used for impact studies. In chapter four Roach visits Wayne State University to watch a crash stimulation. During the stimulation they wanted to see how much impact a human shoulder could withstand before serious injury. I never knew that cadavers played a role with car safety. I don’t agree that safer windshields and steering wheels is the result. I do believe it helps and benefits you, but I don’t think that it is the only result. () In chapter six it talks about the use of cadavers in weapon and ballistic research. I don’t agree with the concept. In 1893 captain Louis Le Garde of the U.S. Army medical corps was ordered to use cadavers to test two different riffles. I found that it was a waste of time and a waste of a human cadaver. The results came to be inconclusive because stopping power cannot be judged against something which is already stopped. I think human cadavers should be used for scientific and medical purposes and not for military purposes.